Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program Year in Review 2019-2020

Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2019–2020
Credit: Martha Stewart
Animal Law & Policy Clinic
The launch of the Animal Law & Policy Clinic
(ALPC) in September 2019 has enabled Harvard
Law School students to work directly on real-time
animal law cases and policy projects, providing
them with hands-on experience in policymaking,
research, litigation, legislation, administrative
practice, and organizational governance––both in
the US and internationally.
As Harvard Law School Dean John Manning noted,
“Animal law is a vitally important and rapidly growing
field. Our new Animal Law & Policy Clinic will give
students real-world experience in this burgeoning
field, build on Harvard Law School’s long tradition of
innovative pedagogy, and prepare future graduates
to address significant societal challenges. I am
delighted to welcome Katherine Meyer to the
Harvard Law School community and congratulate
her, Kristen Stilt, and Nicole Negowetti on the
launch of this terrific initiative.”
Clinic Director Katherine Meyer joined HLS as
one of the most experienced animal protection
litigators in the country, having founded the nation’s
leading environmental and animal public interest
law firm, Meyer & Glitzenstein, 26 years ago.
Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti is a nationally
recognized food systems policy expert who has
focused her teaching, scholarship, and advocacy
on the impacts of industrial livestock production
on animal welfare, the environment, and human
health. In addition to her work at ALPC, in the 2019
fall semester Nicole also taught a reading group
on “Disruptive Food Technologies: Law, Politics,
and Policy.” Recent HLS graduate Kate Barnekow
serves as our first Clinical Fellow assisting on Clinic
projects and research.
Two of the Clinic’s most recent cases filed to protect
primates used in research and protect families from
noxious factory farms were chronicled in exclusive
I got real substantive experience working on a wide variety of types of animal
advocacy. Kathy and Nicole are great and were strongly encouraging and supportive.
I appreciate feeling like I can turn to them in the future for mentorship.”
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