Amanda Schwoerke

Amanda Schwoerke is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School where she has co-taught Abortion: Law, Policy, and Ethics since January 2024. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at Duke Law School, teaching courses in animal law and legal ethics and co-leading a reading group on abortion law and ethics.

Amanda’s legal practice focuses on Animal Law. She regularly handled ESA, AWA, OSH Act, animal-cruelty and other cases as the Associate Director of Litigation at the PETA Foundation, where she also ran the legal internship and fellowship programs. 

Amanda has served on multiple government animal-welfare boards and speaks regularly about animal law, abortion law, and the legal profession. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School.