Clinics & SPOs
Animal Law & Policy Clinic
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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.
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HALS/ALPP Lunch Mixer
November 12, 2024
Join the Animal Law Society and the Animal Law & Policy Clinic as we discuss animal law and the many ways that you can get…
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Lunch Talk with Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim, U.S. Dept. Of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD)
November 4, 2024
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…
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Lone Wolf No More
October 1, 2024
Five decades in, the Endangered Species Act remains one of the country’s most muscular environmental laws — and, despite its popularity, a continued target.
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Lone Wolf No More
September 30, 2024
Five decades in, the Endangered Species Act remains one of the country’s most muscular environmental laws — and, despite its popularity, a continued target
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The Endangered Species Act: The Next 50 Years
September 13, 2024
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…
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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…
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Mary Hollingsworth named director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic
January 12, 2024
“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…
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Mary Hollingsworth named director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic
January 11, 2024
Mary Hollingsworth has been named director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic, effective Jan. 1.
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Manatees Move Toward Restored Endangered Species Safeguards
October 18, 2023
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.
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Animal Law & Policy Clinic submits public comments on Park Service’s Tule Elk Plan
September 27, 2023
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…
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The Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program (ALPP) at Harvard Law School has announced Nirva Kapasi Patel as its new executive director.
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Katie Martinez ’23 and Ben Rankin ’23 are the recipients of the 2023 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Awards.
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‘The legacy I hope to leave’
May 10, 2023
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.
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All Creatures Great and Small
February 14, 2023
The HLS animal law program is trying to prove that better animal welfare is good for everyone
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Clinics in Action
July 15, 2022
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.
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2022 Harvard Law School Animal Law Week
March 22, 2022
Animal law advocates gather to at Harvard Law School for the eighth annual Animal Law Week.
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$10 million endowment established for the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program
November 10, 2021
Harvard Law School today announced the establishment of a $10 million endowment for the Animal Law & Policy Program, thanks to a gift from the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy.