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This webinar will focus on choices faculty need to make in their course design. We will address pedagogy questions including how students learn, how to manage too much material, and teaching goals. We will also adress methodology questions including styles of teaching (seminar, course, experiential) and choices between paper and exam evaluations among others. Finally, we will consider how to develop a course that is balanced in addressing concepts (rights, welfare, etc.) and approach (advocacy, academic, pragmatic, etc.).
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Speaker Bios
Josh Loigman is a former Assistant District Attorney with the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, where he focused on animal cruelty crimes. Over the course of his tenure at the Bronx DA, he handled nearly all of the animal cruelty investigations and prosecutions, and served as the point of contact for all Assistant District Attorneys to determine appropriate plea offers and trial strategy on all animal cruelty cases. Mr. Loigman successfully tried several of these cases to verdict and obtained convictions through jury verdicts and guilty pleas on several high-profile animal cruelty cases. While serving as an Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Loigman received an Award of Excellence from the ASPCA for his commitment to the prosecution of animal cruelty offenses and spoke at multiple public engagements regarding the most effective methods of prosecuting these offenses. He is currently a Trial Attorney with the United States Department of Justice.
Rebecca Cary is Special Counsel for the Animal Protection Law section of the Humane Society of the United States, where she has worked since 2010. Her practice includes farm animal welfare and constitutional defense issues, and she has been the lead attorney on multiple challenges to state farm animal confinement and sales initiatives, including the NPPC v. Ross case in which the Supreme Court upheld California’s Proposition 12 this year. Ms. Cary is a 2009 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, and a 2005 graduate of the University of California San Diego, where she was a founding member of a student animal welfare group. She currently co-chairs the District of Columbia Bar’s Animal Law section, and is also adjunct faculty at George Mason, where she is co-teaches an animal law class.
Shelby Bobosky has been the Executive Director of the Texas Humane Legislation Network since 2019 and the Texas Humane Network since 2020, but she began her volunteer service with THLN in 2011 as a board member. Since 2011 and under her leadership as President, Vice President and Executive Director, THLN has had five successful legislative sessions wherein THLN successfully passed the Anti-Gassing Law (passed in 2013), the Mandatory Canine Encounter Training Law (passed in 2015), the Animal Cruelty Enhancement Law (passed in 2017), the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act (passed in 2021) and strengthening the Licensed Breeders Program (2023). At the same time, Ms. Bobosky’s leadership helped kill many bad bills including a repeal of the Licensed Breeder Program, bringing back horse slaughter and taking certain animal cruelty crimes from misdemeanors to felonies. In 1999, Ms. Bobosky moved from Chicago to Dallas to begin her law practice in commercial litigation and continued practicing general civil litigation until 2017 when she decided to do only pro bono work putting in hundreds of hours for THLN as well as assisting animal welfare advocates and rescues when possible. She teaches Animal Law and Wildlife Law at the Southern Methodist University College of Law and travels the state teaching animal cruelty laws and Texas animal laws. She shares her animal kingdom with three boys, one spouse and three rescued dogs and two rescued prairie dogs.
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 2L at George Washington University Law School, a law student vice chair for the ABA Animal Law Committee, and a social chair for the GW SALDF. Hana hopes to use her degree to help advocate for factory farmed animals.
Kathy Hessler is the inaugural Assistant Dean for Animal Legal Education at George Washington University Law School (GWU), and Director of the Animal Legal Education Initiative (ALEI), working with Joan Schaffner and Iselin Gambert, in a program made possible by generous support from ALDF. Dean Hessler has been a clinical law professor for 30 years and has been teaching animal law for 22 years. She is the first law professor hired to teach animal law full-time. She received her JD from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary and her LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Dean Hessler helped develop the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School (L&C). For fourteen years she taught there and directed the Animal Law Clinic, which was named one of the top fifteen most innovative clinics in 2015. She also created and directed the Aquatic Animal Law Initiative and is the co-founder of World Aquatic Animal Day along with Amy P. Wilson.
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