Wednesday, September 25, 2024 6pm to 7pm
About this Event
Join us to talk about a variety of non-traditional teaching tools you can use in a wide array of animal law courses. We will discuss what non-traditional tools are, as well as options, implementation, benefits, and challenges. We will also discuss assessment, and the use of these tools in online as well as in-person courses.
Panelists
Ralph Henry, Humane Society of the US
Ralph Henry is the Senior Director of Litigation at the Humane Society of the United States, where he helps oversee one of the largest animal protection litigation dockets in the country. Since its launch in 2005, HSUS’s litigation program has secured hundreds of favorable rulings for animals, and won dozens of injunctions and millions of dollars in monetary judgments in courts and administrative agencies.
Over the course of his career, Ralph’s work in animal law has focused on protection of threatened and endangered species, marine mammals, animals trapped and farmed for their fur, and other wild animals subjected to cruel and unnecessary suffering. Most recently, Ralph has helped lead HSUS’s legislative defense litigation efforts, participating in multiple cases concerning the constitutionality of animal protection laws in state and federal courts.
In addition to his work at HSUS, Ralph regularly lectures on animal law at law schools, bar associations and conferences around the country, and was a contributing author of the ABA-published book Wildlife Law and Ethics: A U.S. Perspective. Ralph has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center since 2017 and at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University since 2009.
Delcianna Winders, Vermont Law
Delcianna (Delci) Winders is associate professor of law at Vermont Law and Graduate School and the founding director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute, which is dedicated to supporting aspiring animal advocates through rigorous coursework in law and policy degrees, rewarding mentorships, and real-world training and experiences. Delci was previously on the faculty of Lewis & Clark Law School, where she founded and directed the Animal Law Litigation Clinic. She also served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Captive Animal Law Enforcement at the PETA Foundation, the first academic fellow in Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program, and a visiting scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She taught her first animal-law related course, Factory Farming and Animal Advocacy, more than two decades ago, while still an undergraduate student. Since then she has taught animal law courses nearly thirty times and at six different law schools. These courses include Animal Law, Animal Rights Law, Animal Welfare Law, Animal Law Practicum, Animal Protection Policy, and Science and Animal Law and Policy. She has also developed and shepherded additional animal law courses and mentored aspiring and new animal law instructors.
Hana Nabulsi (moderator), GW Law
Hana Nabulsi graduated from DePaul University with a degree in Neuropsychology and a minor in biological studies. After working in the medical research field for a few years she pivoted her career goals to focus on her passion, animal welfare. Hana helped jumpstart a now flourishing rabbit and guinea pig adoption program at a shelter in her home city, Chicago. While it was difficult to leave that meaningful work, law school felt like the next natural progression. She is now a 3L at George Washington University Law School, a law student vice chair for the ABA Animal Law Committee, and a co-president for the GW SALDF chapter. Hana hopes to use her degree to help advocate for factory farmed animals.
About the Adjunct Teachers in Animal Law Series
Adjunct, rather than full-time, law professors do the majority of animal law teaching in the U.S. and globally. Yet this community does not have the same access to academic resources and support as their full-time counterparts. That can make developing and maintaining animal law courses more challenging. This series is designed to remedy some of that inequity and offer support and resources to expand and improve animal law teaching. The series will focus pragmatic as well as pedagogical matters designed to help those interested in starting or continuing to teach animal law.
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