Animal Protection Litigation Seminar
Professor
Jonathan Lovvorn
J.D. Seminar 567
| 4 credit hours
This seminar explores the process of animal protection litigation in an effort to better understand the status and treatment of animals in the courts. Focusing on both reported cases and actions now pending before state and federal courts, the seminar will address the complex nature of litigation concerning animals; explore the unique ethical issues confronting lawyers practicing animal law; discuss the development and nature of strategic animal protection litigation; describe the investigation and construction of animal protection cases; explore the limits of public and private enforcement of animal laws; analyze successful and unsuccessful past cases concerning captive and companion animals, farm animals, and wildlife; discuss available injunctive and monetary remedies; and explore innovative uses of existing laws to expand legal protection of animals.
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2009 Schedule |
LAWJ-567-05
Updated 7/14/2009
(CRN #: 14099)
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Lovvorn J |
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Mutually Excluded Courses:
Students may not concurrently enroll in this seminar and an externship or a clinic, except Street Law. Students may not receive credit for this course and Community Lawyering Seminar: Dismantling Structural Racism and Creating Social Change or Cosmetic Safety Regulation: Lawyering in the Public Interest or Death Penalty Litigation Seminar or Dietary Supplements Regulation: Lawyering in the Public Interest or Human Rights Advocacy Seminar: U.S. Resettlement Policy and the Iraqi Refugee Crisis or Human Rights Fact-Finding Seminar: Access to Essential Medicines in the Dominican Republic or Local Dynamics of Immigration Law and Policy or Motherhood and Criminality or Rule of Law Promotion and Civil Society in China: Implications for Women and Girls or State and Local Government Lawyering or U.S. Voting Rights: A Practical Perspective or Wrongful Convictions.
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Notes:
This is a 4-credit course. Two credits will be awarded for the two-hour weekly seminar and 2 credits will be awarded for 10 hours of supervised work per week to be scheduled with the faculty.
Note: The 2 credits of supervised work are mandatory pass/fail and count toward the 6 credit pass/fail limit. Students will be allowed to take another course pass/fail in the same semester as the supervised work.
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