Animal Welfare & Climate Change, Explained
Event time:
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 2:00pm
Location:
Online
Speaker/Performer:
Doug Kysar, Jonathan Lovvorn, and Annabel Remudo
Event description:
Doug Kysar and Jonathan Lovvorn (Yale Law) join Annabel Remudo (Murray ‘22) to explain the relationship between animal rights, the American food system, and climate change.
This is one of five Live Explainers being held during Yale Earth Week 2021. To register for these and other events, please visit earthweek.yale.edu!
Jonathan Lovvorn
Jonathan Lovvorn is the Faculty Co-Director of the Climate, Animal, Food, and Environmental Law & Policy Labat Yale Law School. He also serves as theFaculty Co-Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program, as a Senior Research Scholar, and Lecturer in Law. His teaching andscholarship focuses on the intersection of animal law, environmental law, and food policy, and the search for practical legal solutions that advance diverse public interest causes. Heco-founded the Climate, Animal, Food, and Environmental Law & Policy Lab, which provides a creative space for students, faculty, outside experts, and non-governmental organizations to devise and propagate novel legal and policy strategies to compel industrial animal agriculture to pay the uncounted and externalized costs these operations saddle upon animals, workers, communities, and the environment.
Doug Kysar
Professor Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty co-director of theLaw, Ethics and Animals Program.His teaching and research areas include torts, animal law, environmental law, climate change, products liability, and risk regulation. Kysar was previously on the faculty at Cornell Law School. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Annabel Remudo
Annabel Remudo is a Junior studying political science. She is from South Florida and is the sustainability liaison for Pauli Murray. She is also the president of the Yale Animal Welfare Alliance and is particularly interested in the way we can fight climate change with diet change.
Sponsor:
Yale Law
Open to (Retired FIeld):
General Public