May 13, 2021 , Animal Law & Policy Clinic Calls for End to Loophole that Allows Canada Lynx to be Exploited, Mistreated, and Killed

For immediate release: May 13, 2021

May 05, 2021 , Secret Policy Uncovered Under the Freedom of Information Act Shows USDA Does Not Inspect Research Labs as Required by the Animal Welfare Act­

For Immediate Release, May 5, 2021

May 05, 2021 Science Magazine Exclusive: USDA now only partially inspects some lab animal facilities, internal documents reveal

Partial inspections violate the Animal Welfare Act, argues Katherine Meyer, director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic, which discovered the change after student Brett Richey combed through more than 1000 pages of internal USDA documents.

Animal law conference poster in which a turtle swims among fish.

October 01, 2020 Clinic staff to moderate panels at annual Animal Law Conference

Katherine Meyer, Director of our Animal Law & Policy Clinic will moderate “Litigating for Animals in a Climate Crisis", and Kate Barnekow, our Clinical Fellow, will moderate “Legislative and Regulatory Updates.”

Purple poster advertising Canadian Animal Law Conference

September 01, 2020 Animal Law & Policy Program to present at Canadian Animal Law Conference

Five speakers from the Animal Law & Policy Program will speak at this year's Canadian Animal Law Conference: Faculty Director, Professor Kristen Stilt; Executive Director, Chris Green; Research Fellow, Ann Linder; Clinical Fellow, Kate Barnekow, and Policy Fellow, Jan Dutkiewicz.

June 24, 2020 Clinic petitions National Institutes of Health to protect octopuses

The NIH’s current policy that defines which animals are entitled to be handled humanely excludes all invertebrates, including cephalopods. However, because of their extraordinary brains, these animals–particularly octopuses–are increasingly the focus of much federal-funded research.