Animal Law & Policy Clinic

The Animal Law and Policy Program and the Harvard Animal Law Society invites you to join us for lunch to learn more about the Clinic,…

Penny, a 3 year-old beagle, visited Harvard Law School to meet Mary Hollingsworth, director of the Animal Law & Policy Clinic, whose work led to her release from an inhumane breeding facility.

Please join us for a lunch conversation with Todd Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of…

Five decades in, the Endangered Species Act remains one of the country’s most muscular environmental laws — and, despite its popularity, a continued target.

Five decades in, the Endangered Species Act remains one of the country’s most muscular environmental laws — and, despite its popularity, a continued target

Please join us for a convening on the Endangered Species Act that will explore the Act’s successes and challenges over the past 50 years and…

Environmental advocates notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today of their intent to sue over the agency’s failure to respond to a request for…

“I am looking forward to working with HLS students to advance animal protection in the law and to prepare them for the myriad challenges that…

Mary Hollingsworth has been named director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic, effective Jan. 1.

Responding to a formal petition submitted by the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Center for Biological Diversity, Miami Waterkeeper, Save the Manatee Club, and Frank S. González García, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that reclassifying the West Indian manatee from threatened to endangered may be warranted.

The Clinic has submitted public comments to the National Park Service, which support the agency’s proposal to remove a fence that has prevented Tule elk in…

The Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program (ALPP) at Harvard Law School has announced Nirva Kapasi Patel as its new executive director.

Katie Martinez ’23 and Ben Rankin ’23 are the recipients of the 2023 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Awards.

Barbara “Babs” Tsao ’23 was 13 years old when her family moved from a leafy suburb in California’s Bay Area to a ranch in a small Texas town where her stepfather raised alpacas and her mother opened her own sushi restaurant.

The HLS animal law program is trying to prove that better animal welfare is good for everyone

For one day in the 2019–2020 academic year, Harvard Law Today followed just a handful of Harvard Law's 47 legal clinics to see their work — and their efforts to advance justice — in action.