Environmentalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and advocates for animal, labor, and human rights, as well as several high-profile investors, are now bringing a concerted focus to hastening the end of factory farming and perhaps even replacing animal agriculture altogether. In this multifaceted effort, law is deeply intertwined with the strategic approaches being employed, including legislation, litigation, regulation, innovation, and education. Harvard Law Professor Kristen Stilt and Chris Green ‘04, faculty director and executive director of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program, co-hosted an interactive session with on these issues with HLS Lecturer on Law Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation, Humane Society of the United States; Justin Marceau ‘04, a professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law; HLS Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti, and Rosie Wardle, program director of the Jeremy Coller Foundation.

Their talk was part of the HLS in the World bicentennial summit which took place at Harvard Law School on Friday, October 27, 2017. Read more: http://200.hls.harvard.edu/