Presentations

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Ethics and Animal Ethnography,” Wesleyan University, workshop hosted by Professors Lori Gruen and Elan Abrell (May 7–8, 2020).
• “Halal Animals: Food, Faith, and the Future of Planetary Health,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Program Workshop Series (April 7, 2020).
• “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Animals & Society Research Initiative Distinguished Lecture Series (March 10, 2020).
• “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” Harvard University, Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program (March 6, 2020).
• “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law Society Animal Law Week (February 24, 2020).
• “Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: A Discussion with Book Author Charlotte Blattner, Animal Law & Policy Program Visiting Researcher,” Harvard Law School (November 18, 2019).
• “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, Keynote Presentation, European Animal Rights Law Conference (September 14, 2019).
• “Animals and Religion,” The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad, India, (July 25, 2019).

Academic Year 2018-2019

• “Foreign Animals in Middle Eastern Markets,” University of Vienna, Workshop on Animals in the Middle East, June 27-28, 2019.
• “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, June 2, 2019. • “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” University of California San Diego,” May 7, 2019.
• “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” University of Illinois Law School Faculty Workshop, May 2, 2019.
• “Debates about Death,” Harvard Law School, The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia Workshop, April 4-5, 2019.
• “Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law,” The University of Texas School of Law, February 21-22, 2019.
• “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” McGill Law School, Legal Theory Workshop, February 1, 2019
• “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Workshop Series, November 27, 2018.
• “Halal Animals,” Harvard Law School, Animal Grantmakers Conference, October 17, 2018.
• “The End of the Ritual Bubble,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Workshop Series, October 2, 2018.

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Solving the ‘Epidemic’ of U.S. Police Officers Shooting People’s Pets,” Illinois State Bar Association 11th Annual Animal Law Conference (March 6, 2020).
• “Animal Law Education at Harvard Law School,” New York University, Animal Advocacy, Animal Law, and Animal Studies Summit (February 22, 2020).
• “The Game Changers—Athletes & Filmmakers,” Moderator, Harvard Law School (February 11, 2020).
• “The Game Changers—Athletes & Filmmakers,” Moderator, Harvard Business School (February 11, 2020).
• “Providing Law Enforcement Officers with Comprehensive Animal Encounter Training,” American Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting (February 17, 2020). • “Animal Law & Policy in the United States,” Jilin International Studies University (October 23, 2019).
• “Animal Law & Policy in the United States,” Changchun University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (October 22, 2019).
• “Solving the ‘Epidemic’ of U.S. Police Officers Shooting People’s Pets,” Asia for Animals Conference (October 19, 2019).
• “Providing Law Enforcement Officers with Comprehensive Animal Encounter Training,” American Bar Association TIPS Fall Leadership Meeting (October 17, 2019).
• “Regulating ‘Exotic’ or Dangerous Wild Animals,” Canadian Animal Law Conference (October 6, 2019).
• “Animals, Justice, & the Moral Community,” Moderator, Canadian Animal Law Conference (October 5, 2019).
• “Alternative Animal Advocacy: Channeling Public Sentiment into Substantive Welfare Advances,” University of Illinois, Animal Studies Summer Institute (July 19, 2019). • “Academia & Animal Law Education at Harvard Law School,” China Animal Welfare Forum, Beijing (July 12, 2019).
• “Alternatives in Animal Advocacy: Using Laws Creatively to Protect Animals,” China Animal Welfare Forum, Beijing (July 11, 2019).

Academic Year 2018-2019

• “Alternative Animal Advocacy: Channeling Public Sentiment into Substantive Welfare Advances” in the Animals in History course at Harvard College, April 17, 2019.
• “The Current State of Compensating Companion Animal Harm” in the Animal Law course at NYU Law School, February 20, 2019.

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Using the Endangered Species Act to Protect Animals in Captivity” in the Wildlife Law course, Lewis & Clark Law School (May 29, 2020).
• “The Animal Welfare Act” in the Animal Law course, Harvard Law School (March 25, 2020).
• “New Jersey Soc. For Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, et al. v. N.J. Dep’t of Agriculture, 955 A.2d 886 (N.J. 2008): Strategy to Successfully Remove the Generally Accepted Agricultural Practice Exemption from New Jersey’s Animal Cruelty Code” in the Animal Law Litigation Clinic, Lewis & Clark Law School (March 10, 2020).

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Red Meat, Meat Alternatives, and Beyond: Health, Environment, Policy, and the Media,” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (January 27, 2020).
•  “Modernizing Food Labeling: The Narratives of Food Innovation and Deciphering Mixed Messages,” Food and Drug Law Journal Symposium: Going Viral: Safeguarding Public Health in the Modern Era, Food and Drug Law Institute (November 15, 2019).
• “Legal and Regulatory Issues Surrounding Emerging Meat Alternatives,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Emerging Meat Alternatives Conference
  (November 2, 2019).
• “Sustainability of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives,” Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Food Innovation Summit (October 22, 2019).
• “War Over Words: Plant-Based, Cellular, and Novel ‘Meats’ and ‘Dairy’ Products,” Food Law and Drug Institute, Food Advertising, Labeling, and Litigation Conference: For the Food and Dietary Supplement Industries (September 26, 2019).
• “Implications of Novel Ingredients,” Moderator and Panelist, Institute on Science for Global Policy (ISGP) Forum, NextGenFood Virtual Conference (September 25, 2019).
• “Genetic Engineering: The Good, the Bad, and the Necessary,” Moderator and Panelist, Environmental Law Institute (September 11, 2019).

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Animal Law Advising,” Harvard Law School (November 13, 2019).

Academic Year 2018-2019

• “Unanswered Questions in the Animal Law and Protection Fields,” at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics’ Summer School 2018, Oxford, UK, July 25, 2018. The Animal Law & Policy Program provided a grant that covered Kate’s travel expenses to speak at the event.

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Toward Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Animal Participants” in the Animals in Research: Law, Policy, and Humane Sciences course, Johns Hopkins University (January 27, 2020).
• “Accelerating the Transition towards Animal-Free Innovations,” Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Pioneer-2-Policymaker Conference (November 28, 2019).
• “Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders,” Harvard Law School (November 18, 2019).
• “Climate Emergency, Migration Crisis, and Interspecies Resilience,” University of Victoria, Animals & Society Research Initiative (November 14, 2019).
• “Globalization & Animal Law: Relationship, Antagonisms, and Future Paths” in the Animals, Culture, and the Law course, University of Victoria, BC (November 13, 2019).
• “Drafting Principles of Transitional Justice for a Post Conflict Interspecies Society,” Canadian Animal Law Conference (October 5, 2019).
• “The Swiss Primate Case—A Stroke of Luck or Justice in Action?” St. Edmund’s College and Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, European Animal Rights Law Conference (September 14, 2019).
• “Just Animals? The Future of the Political Turn in Animal Ethics,” University of Manchester, MANCEPT Workshops (September 10, 2019).

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Eating Away at Climate Change with Negative Emissions: Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” Plant-Powered Expo, Climate Summit (February 1, 2020).
• “Eating Away at Climate Change with Negative Emissions: Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” Livestock, Environment and People Conference (December 10, 2019).
• “Eating Our Way Out of Trouble? The Crucial Role of Food Systems in Creating a Sustainable Future,” The University Caterers Organisation Annual Conference (December 4, 2019).
• “The Role of Food Systems in Creating a Sustainable Future,” United Kingdom Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education (November 26, 2019).
• “Eating Our Way to Extinction? The Need to Create Sustainable Food Systems, and the Role We Can Play,” Keynote Presentation, VESNA Conference (November 9, 2019).
• “Livestock and Climate Change – Is It ‘Just’ a Methane Issue, and What Can Scientists Do to Influence the Discourse?,” VESNA Conference (November 7, 2019).
• “Climate Change and Food—Do Our Choices Matter?,” UK VegFest, Climate Summit (October 26, 2019).
• “Eating Our Way to Extinction? Reconfiguring Food Systems to Help Tackle the Wildlife Crisis,” UK VegFest, Wildlife Summit (October 26, 2019).
• “Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Do Our Food Choices Matter?,” MACE Group and the Northern Trust (October 24, 2019).
• “Eating Our Troubles Away? The Crucial Role of Food Systems in Tackling Climate Change,” TUCO Sustainability Group Board Meeting (September 11, 2019).

Academic Year 2018-2019

• Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” Meeting with Member of Scottish Parliament Minister for Climate and Agriculture, June 24, 2019.
• Attended EAT Forum as a delegate, June 11-14, 2019.
• “Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” Global Food Security Program Coordinators Group Meeting, June 6, 2019.
• “Eating Away at Climate Change with Negative Emissions: Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vegetarianism and Veganism, Houses of Parliament, May 1, 2019.
• Attended the 2019 City Food Policy Symposium: How to Develop and Deliver a National Food Policy: A Global Perspective, City University, London, April 30, 2019.
• “Eating Away at Climate Change with Negative Emissions: Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” Meeting with UK Committee on Climate Change Food and Agriculture Team, April 18, 2019.
• “Eating Away at Climate Change with Negative Emissions: Repurposing UK Agricultural Land to Meet Climate Goals,” Grow Green Conference, April 11, 2019.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Meeting with Advisors at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2019.
• Panel discussion following BAFTA-winning film “73 Cows” screening, European Parliament, Brussels, March 5, 2019.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Transitioning & Rewilding Farmland in the EU Panel, European Parliament, Brussels, March 5, 2019.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Growing the Good Panel, European Parliament, Brussels, February 20, 2019.
• “Agri-Food Reforms for People and Animals: Production and Consumption Levers: What Does the Research Find and Suggest?,” International Monetary Fund Roundtable, Chatham House, February 18, 2019.
• “Restoring Planetary Health: The Crucial Role of Food Systems,” Presentation at Veganuary, Sky TV, January 30, 2019.
• “Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Do Our Food Choices Matter?,” Catering Directors Meeting, The RAF Club, January 16, 2019.
• “The Role of Animal to Plant Protein Shifts in Joined-Up Policy Making: The Case of Rewilding and Climate Change Mitigation,” Rewilding and Its Effects on Nature and People Conference, Cambridge University, January 11-12, 2019.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Meeting with George Eustice, Member of Parliament and Minister for Farming, The Home Office, London, December 5, 2018.
• “Restoring Planetary Health: The Crucial Role of Food Systems,” The University Caterers Organisation Hungry for Change Symposium, November 14, 2018.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology, Houses of Parliament, London, November 13, 2018.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) Conference, November 7, 2018.
• “Creating Sustainable Food Systems: Do Our Food Choices Matter?,” Sodexo Culinaire Conference, September 26, 2018.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Have We the Appetite for Sustainable and Healthy Food?, Labour Party Annual Conference, September 24, 2018.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Sustainable Farming for the Future, Liberal Democrats’ Annual Party Conference, September 17, 2018.
• “A Three-Step Strategy for Including Animal to Plant-Sourced Protein Shifts in Climate Change Mitigation Policy,” Meat Analogues: What Do They Mean for the EU? Workshop, September 12, 2018. • “A Culinary Intervention Approach for Aligning the Food Service Sector with Planetary Health Goals,” Royal Geographical Society Annual International, August 29, 2018.

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Book Talk: Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism: Understanding and Bridging the Divide,” Boston College (April 21, 2020).

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Laboratory Animals and Animal Law” in the Animal Law course, Harvard Law School (March 25, 2020).
• “Laboratory Animals & Animal Law—An Insider’s Perspective” in the Animal Law course, Lewis & Clark Law School (July 24, 2020).

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Humanizing the War on Animals,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Workshop (December 10, 2019).
•  “Humanizing the War on Animals,” New York University, Animal Studies Reading Group (October 25, 2019).
•  “Legal Animal Rights,” University of Lucerne, 29th IVR World Congress (July 11, 2019).
•  “Legal Animal Rights: Simple and Fundamental,” University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law (April 26, 2019).

Academic Year 2018-2019

• Interview on animal rights on the German television program “Scobel”, which runs weekly on German/Austrian/Swiss public broadcast stations, April 4, 2019.
• “Elements of a Legal Theory of Animal Rights” Harvard Animal Law & Policy Workshop, October 30, 2018.
• “Fundamental Rights for Animals,” Animal Legal Personhood Symposium, American University Washington College of Law, October 3, 2018.

Academic Year 2019-2020

• “Exploring Alternative Proteins: The Science, Policy, and Business of Plant Proteins and Cell-based Meats,” Future of Food and Nutrition Research Conference, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition, April 6, 2019.
• “Demystifying the Science of Food and the Environment,” Seminar at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, February 14, 2019.
•  “Plant-Based as a Negative Emissions Technology,” Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative Conference, Boston University, December 7, 2018.
• “Quantifying the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Global PlantBased Dietary Shifts,” Ivy League Future of Food Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 14, 2018.

Academic Year 2018-2019

• “A Protein Shake-Up? The Promise and Pitfalls of Investor Driven Governance for Advocacy Against Intensive Animal Agriculture,” Law and Society Association Meeting, Washington DC, May 30, 2019.
• Animal Legal and Policy Studies Summit, The Brooks Institute, May 10-12, 2019.
• “Labelling for Sustainable, Healthy, Fair Food Systems? A Critical Evaluation of the Democratic, Transformative Governance Capacity of Food Labelling,” Seminar for American Bar Foundation, Chicago, May 1, 2019.
• “Can Ethical Labelling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable and Just? Lessons from a Critical Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Capacity of Animal Welfare Labelling,” Harvard Law School, April 23, 2019.
• Meta-Regulation, Business Regulation and Animal Welfare Labelling,” in Regulation Seminar, Professor Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania Law School, March 13, 2019.