Animal Law

• Semester: Fall 2025
• Course ID: 291P
• Credit Hours: 2
• Unique: 30709

Description

Taught by Robyn Katz.

This course is designed to familiarize you with the abundance of topics and legal issues within the field of animal law. In addition to relevant statutes and case law, we will examine the extent to which jurisprudence, legal systems, litigation, legislation, and societal values impact how practitioners, lawmakers, the judiciary, law students, legal scholars, and lay people perceive animals. In doing so, this course will not only facilitate learning substantive law in the field, but also help you understand the framework of claims and assumptions (both explicit and implicit) against which animal law legislation, litigation, and decisions are made.

Textbooks:

Bruce A. Wagman, Sonia S. Waisman, & Pamela D. Frasch, Animal Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2019).        

AND        

Yong, Ed, An Immense World. Random House, 2023.