Past Symposiums

Future of Innovation, Sustainability, and the Law: Animal Welfare and Public Health Symposium - Friday, March 7, 2025

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Northwestern Pritzker Law, the Program on Food and Animal Law and Sustainability and the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center present a Symposium on "Animal Welfare and Public Health."

In this symposium, we will delve deep into the critical issues that arise at the crossroads of animal welfare and public health. We aim to provide a comprehensive platform for engaging discussions and knowledge sharing, and we are proud to present an agenda that promises a day filled with meaningful insights. This event will bring together leading experts and thought leaders from diverse backgrounds to explore the pressing challenges and potential opportunities within this complex intersection.

Schedule

Panel: CAFOs, Public Health and Zoonotic Disease (2 - 3:30pm)

Participants:

Steven Roach, MA, Safe and Health Food Program Director, Food Animal Concerns Trust
2025 FISL Public Interest Fellow-in-Residence
Raphael Aguiar, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University
Kathleen Garvey, JD, Staff Attorney, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Colleen Duncan, PhD, Professor of Pathology in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
Moderator: David Dana, JD, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Professor of Real Estate, Kellogg School of Management & Director, Program on Sustainability and Food and Animal Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Keynote Address on Transfarmation (4 - 5pm)

Participant:

Leah Garcés, MS, Founder, Transfarmation; CEO and President, Mercy for Animals

Book Signing and Reception (5 - 6pm)

Materials

Aguiar et al - One health governance of antimicrobial resistance seen through an Urban Political Ecology lens

Aguiar et al - The Urban Political Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance

Glibert - The FDA says it’s winning the battle to cut farm antibiotics. The data tells a different story

Superbugs in Stock: Which grocery chains are acting to eliminate routine antibiotic use in their meat supply?

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Animal Welfare and Climate Change Symposium - March 29, 2024

Northwestern Pritzker Law, the Program on Food and Animal Law and Sustainability and the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center present a Symposium on "Animal Welfare and Climate Change: Intersections and Parallels." We are grateful to our sponsor, The Brooks Institute.

In this symposium, we will delve deep into the critical issues that arise at the crossroads of animal welfare and climate change. We aim to provide a comprehensive platform for engaging discussions and knowledge sharing, and we are proud to present an agenda that promises a day filled with meaningful insights.

Schedule

This event will bring together leading experts and thought leaders from diverse backgrounds to explore the pressing challenges and potential opportunities within this complex intersection. Our symposium is divided into five panels, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the topic:

Intersections

Panel One: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improving Animal Welfare in CAFO- and non-CAFO Systems of Food Production (9-10:30am)

Participants:

Daina Bray, JD, Clinical Lecturer in Law and Project Manager of the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative, Yale Law School's Law, Ethics and Animals Program
Hira Jaleel, LLM, Animal Law Teaching Fellow, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School
Cleo Verkuijl, LLM, Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Law School & Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute
Daniel Ziebarth, MA, M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Institute for Transnational Legal Research at Maastricht University and in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University
Moderator: David Dana, JD, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Professor of Real Estate, Kellogg School of Management & Director, Program on Sustainability and Food and Animal Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Panel Two: Reducing the Demand for Inexpensive Meat (10:45am-12pm)

Participants:

Justin Marceau, JD, Professor, Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy, Strum College of Law, University of Denver
Maya Mathur, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Stanford University's Quantitative Sciences Unit and Principal investigator, Stanford Humane & Sustainable Food Lab
Sparsha Saha, PhD, Lecturer in Government, Harvard University
Sean Sullivan, PhD, JD, MA, MS, Professor of Law and Bouma Faculty Fellow in Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Moderator: Ilana Braverman, MS, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Greener by Default

Panel Three: Green-washing and Humane-washing (1-2:15pm)

Participants:

Amanda Hitt, JD, MPH, Visiting Fellow, Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program, Harvard Law
Ben Lilliston, Director of Rural Strategies and Climate Change, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
Michael Swistara, JD, Litigation Fellow, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Steph Tai, PhD, JD, Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Affairs, UW Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator: Janice Nadler, PhD, JD, Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Parallels

Panel Four: Start-ups In Animal Welfare/Food Technology and Clean Energy (2:15-3:45 pm)

Participants:

Kaitlin Grady, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs, Clever Carnivore
Deepti Kulkarni, JD, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Myra Pasek, JD, Board Member, SCiFi Foods & Former GC, Impossible Foods
Karuna Rawal, MBA, CMO, Nature's Fynd
Ilya Sheyman, CEO, Good Food Institute
Moderator: Esther Barron, JD, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Panel Five: Does the Current Legal Landscape Protect Farmed Animals? Challenges and Opportunities (3:45-4:45pm)

Participants:

Chris Green, JD, Executive Director, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Cheryl Leahy, JD, Executive Director, Animal Outlook
Moderator: Kenworthey Bilz, PhD, JD, MA, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law