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Weekly luncheon for Texas Law faculty members

The Public Interest Law Association invites you to attend a lunch panel on trauma-informed services and self-care in public interest practice and beyond. Local attorneys will offer guidance and perspective regarding engaging with clients who have experienced trauma and practicing self-care.

Join the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund for a conversation on "Advocacy Beyond the Law" for animal rights.

Guest speakers include:

Mariann Sullivan - is a lawyer and an adjunct professor of animal law at Columbia Law School. She is the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial Insurance Practice Section’s Animal Law Committee. With David Wolfson, she is the author of a trilogy of articles on farmed animals and the law: “Foxes in the Henhouse: Animals Agribusiness and the Law, A Modern American Fable” in Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions; “What’s Good for the Goose," The Supreme Court of Israel, Foie Gras, and the Future of Farmed Animals in the United States,” in the 2007 volume of the Duke Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems; and “If it Looks Like a Duck: New Jersey, The Regulation of Common Farming Practices, and the Meaning of ‘Humane,’” in Animal Law and the Courts. Mariann is also the author of “The Animal Welfare Act: What’s That?” which was published in the New York State Bar Association Journal. She has spoken at various conferences and animal law related events throughout the country, as well as Animal Rights Africa’s Animal Law Review Consultation Workshop in Johannesburg.

Jasmin Singer - is the Executive Director of the nonprofit, Our Hen House, a multimedia hub of opportunities to change the world for animals. With her partner, animal rights lawyer Mariann Sullivan, she produces a television show (also called Our Hen House) as well as a Webby-recognized weekly podcast and an online magazine. She has written for numerous online publications, including Huffington Post and MindBodyGreen, has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, HuffPo Live, and can be seen in the award-winning documentaries Vegucated and The Ghosts in Our Machine.