Join us for another conversation in our Adjunct Teachers in Animal Law Series. We will be talking about a variety of issues related to online teaching for an array of animal law courses. We will discuss synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid teaching generally. We will address best practices, the pros and cons of online courses, and creating course content. We will also discuss the teaching and administrative challenges of these types of courses as well as how to develop student engagement across differing levels of student programs (JD, LLM, etc.).

Although this series is designed for adjunct teachers, all are welcome including full-time teachers, students, and others.

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Panelists

Will Lowrey, Animal Partisan

Will Lowrey is the founder and Legal Counsel for Animal Partisan, a legal advocacy organization focused on challenging unlawful conduct in animal agriculture and research. Prior to his current role, Will worked as Legal Counsel for Animal Outlook, a national nonprofit farmed animal protection organization, where he divided his time between civil litigation and undercover investigations. In 2022, Will taught the first Animal Law course at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He will also be teaching the first Animal Law course at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in Spring 2024 and will be teaching Animal Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School in Summer 2024. As part of his work at Animal Partisan, Will works extensively with law school interns and pro bono student groups. Before law school, Will worked for nearly two decades as a senior process engineer at a large financial corporation and in his free time, helped run several local non-profits focused on a variety of animal issues.

Amy P. Wilson, Animal Law Reform

Amy P. Wilson is South African licensed attorney and researcher (with over 13 years of professional legal experience) focusing on the intersection of the rights of humans, nonhuman animals and Nature in law and policy and creative approaches to the attainment of an inclusive system of justice. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Animal Law Reform South Africa, the first dedicated animal law non-profit in the country. She is a Lecturer, Doctoral Candidate and Research Associate with the University of Johannesburg; a Senior Adjunct Lecturer with the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; and a Visiting Instructor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University in the USA; and a consultant for the Animal Legal Education Initiative at The George Washington University Law School. Amy is an Independent Expert with the United Nations in Harmony with Nature Programme and a founding steering committee member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature: Africa Hub.

Susan L. Brooks, Drexel University Kline School of Law

Susan Brooks has over three decades of experience as an educator, creative scholar, facilitator, and presenter in the areas of experiential and community-based learning, professional development, cross-cultural communication, and conflict transformation. Since 2007 she has been a Professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law in Philadelphia and served as the school’s inaugural Associate Dean for Experiential Learning. She has established numerous university-community collaborations, including co-founding the law school’s Stern Community Lawyering Clinic, where she is currently Acting Director. Susan has devoted much of her teaching, community work, and scholarship to promoting an integrative, humanistic approach she calls “Relational” and “Wholehearted” Lawyering, which includes tools and practices to support healing, wellbeing, and liberation. She was awarded a Fulbright Global Research Scholar Fellowship in 2020 to study culturally sustaining forms of conflict transformation, including restorative justice and facilitated dialogue. Susan received her J.D. from New York University. She received an M.A. and B.A. in clinical social work from the University of Chicago. She is a licensed attorney, mediator, trained restorative justice facilitator and circle keeper, and also a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher.

Rachel Pepper (moderator), GW Law

Rachel Pepper is a third year law student at the George Washington University Law School. She grew up in Montgomery County, MD and has always loved animals. Rachel has been dedicated to animal rights since the seventh grade, petitioning to protest frog dissections at her school and working to combine her passion for animal activism with the law. She participated in competitive debate throughout high school and college, and developed a strong interest in research and argumentation. Rachel graduated from the University of Maryland in 2023 with a double degree in English Literature and Russian Language and Literature.

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.