October 11, 2023 , Manatees Move Toward Restored Endangered Species Safeguards

For Immediate Release: 11 October 2023

The fence erected by the Park Service somehow separates a fawn from its mother.

September 27, 2023 Animal Law & Policy Clinic Submits Public Comments on Park Service’s Tule Elk Plan

Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic has submitted public comments to the National Park Service, which support the agencies proposal to remove a fence that has prevented Tule elk in Tomales Point from accessing adequate food and water.

September 18, 2023 “The class gave me hope and optimism… about how we can collectively seek justice for animals, which I translated into ideas for my design proposal.”

Rebecca Shen was one of several cross-registrants who took Professor Kristen Stilt's animal law class this past spring. The class helped inform her Master's thesis project design, which is to turn feedlots in California into cow sanctuaries. Here, she shares more about her motivations for her work and for taking the class.

Octopus in a tank appearing pale

September 11, 2023 Progress in the Fight to Protect Cephalopods Used in Research in the U.S.

"Ensuring a modicum of federal oversight for these animals is a step in the right direction," says Rachel Mathews, Acting Clinic Director