Please join us for the third in a series of student-focused sessions on careers in animal law. Yolanda Eisenstein, author of the first edition of Careers in Animal Law, is currently writing the second edition and will be discussing her work along with animal law experts.

This informal conversation will address common questions, concerns, and hopes that students have when considering a career in animal law. This includes personal concerns such as the need to move, potential financial limitations, and working with traumatic matters and benefits such as flexibility to work and have families. It will also look at the range of opportunities including work at law firms, nonprofit organizations, with judges or in government agencies and legislative bodies.

Speakers

Yolanda Eisenstein is an animal lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in animal protection law and advocacy. While in Dallas, Texas, she had a solo practice in animal law and was an adjunct professor of animal law and wildlife law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She is president of the Animal Law Commission of the Paris-based Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), an international association of lawyers. She represents the UIA at the United Nations in the areas of sustainability and artificial intelligence. Her books include Careers in Animal Law, The American Bar Association Guide to Dog Laws, Wildlife Law and Ethics (co-editor), and A Guide to Representing Animal Protection Organizations (co-editor).

Iselin Gambert joined the GW Law faculty in 2009 and currently teaches in and serves as the Director of the Fundamentals of Lawyering (FL) Program, GW’s innovative 6-credit program that replaced the former Legal Research and Writing Program. She is also an advisor in GW's Inns of Court Program. From 2009 - 2021, in addition to teaching courses in legal writing and advocacy, she served as the director of the GW Law Writing Center.

Professor Gambert is an active member of the national and international legal writing and lawyering skills communities. In 2020 she was re-elected to a second four-year term on the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving legal communication, building the discipline of legal writing, and improving the status of legal writing faculty across the country. She served as LWI's inaugural Communications and Public Relations officer and is currently the Board Secretary. From 2013 to 2017, she served as the co-editor-in-chief of the Second Draft: The Magazine of the Legal Writing Institute. She also served on the Site Committee for the 2014 and 2016 LWI Biennial Conference.