March 23, 2022 2022 Harvard Law School Animal Law Week

Our eighth annual event explores animal personhood, rights of nature, and how HLS graduates can impact animal law and policy

Plastic tray raw fresh ground meat in lab scientist hand. Laboratory meat quality analysis inspection check or cultured meat concept with a blank label.

December 02, 2021 , Clinics Collaborate on Cultivated Meat Labeling Comments

Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic and Food Law and Policy Clinic jointly submitted public comments in response to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (USDA-FSIS) Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the labeling of meat and poultry products comprised of or containing cultured animal cells (also known as cultivated meat).

Brooks McCormick Jr., a lifelong animal lover, philanthropist, and founding benefactor of the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, who passed away in 2015. Pictured with five of his companion animals.

November 10, 2021 $10 million endowment established for the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program

Harvard Law School today announced the establishment of a $10 million endowment for the Animal Law & Policy Program, thanks to a gift from the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy.

Chris Green and Kate Barnekow at an outdoor welcome back for HLS staff

September 28, 2021 , ‘It’s good to be back’

Our Executive Director Chris Green pictured with our Clinical Fellow Kate Barnekow was among those who shared what they are excited about for the coming year at a recent staff appreciation event

Five baby piglets gather under their mother

August 19, 2021 California’s coming bacon crunch

“[They] had three years to change their housing systems. They instead chose to not comply,” says Chris Green of Harvard Law’s Animal Law & Policy Program.

June 22, 2021 , Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk

For immediate release: June 22, 2021