Beautiful scene of a great dane and a cow with their heads together

August 18, 2022 , International perceptions of animals and the importance of their welfare

Most people everywhere care about the welfare of farmed animals according to new cross-cultural research led by ALPP Visiting Fellow Dr. Michelle Sinclair and 14 in-country collaborating co-authors

Pregnant sow in gestation unit in intensive swine farm.

August 15, 2022 Harvard Highlights the Cruel, Far-Reaching Implications of Prop 12 Challenge Before U.S. Supreme Court  

For immediate release: 15 August 2022

Happy the elephant strolls inside the zoo's Asia Habitat in New York on Oct. 2, 2018. New York's top court on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo, ruling that she does not meet the definition of "person" who is being illegally confined.

July 07, 2022 Professor Kristen Stilt talks to Harvard Law Today about the campaign to release Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo

‘The court simply refused to extend to Happy the elephant the opportunity to prove, through her lawyers, that she deserves her freedom’

Clinic students celebrate with their parents and teachers.

June 03, 2022 , Much to Celebrate

Celebrating our students and the work of the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program and its Animal Law & Policy Clinic.