Episodios

  • Redefining Democracy: How Constitutional Law Could Embrace All Sentient Life

    Redefining Democracy: How Constitutional Law Could Embrace All Sentient Life
    Jun 27 2025
    In a groundbreaking episode of The Animal Law Podcast, we explored radical new concepts that could fundamentally transform how constitutional law treats animals. Host Mariann Sullivan welcomed Cambridge University’s Raffael Fasel and Queen Mary University’s John Adenitire to discuss their book “Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-Based Constitutionalism” – a work that challenges centuries of legal tradition by proposing constitutional frameworks…
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Is Ventilation Shutdown Legal? Private Citizens Fighting Factory Farm Cruelty

    Is Ventilation Shutdown Legal? Private Citizens Fighting Factory Farm Cruelty
    May 23 2025
    In this episode of the Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan welcomes back Will Lowrey, legal counsel for Animal Partisan, alongside David Rosengard, managing attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund‘s Criminal Justice Program. They dive into an obscure but potentially game-changing legal tool: laws in certain states that allow private citizens to obtain search warrants when they have evidence of animal…
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    51 m
  • Can an S.P.C.A. Prevent Cruelty to Cows? with Alene Anello

    Can an S.P.C.A. Prevent Cruelty to Cows? with Alene Anello
    Apr 30 2025
    Alene Anello of Legal Impact for Chickens joins us once again, this time to talk, not about chickens, but about cows. Of course, the laws affecting farmed animals are often the same regardless of species and Legal Impact for Chickens thinks it would be great to see some of California’s rather good laws protecting farmed animals actually enforced. For that reason,…
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    44 m
  • The Case of the Cows, the Gas, and the Money with Kelsey Eberly and Skye Walker

    The Case of the Cows, the Gas, and the Money with Kelsey Eberly and Skye Walker
    Mar 26 2025
    FarmSTAND attorneys Kelsey Eberly and Skye Walker join us on this episode to discuss an absolutely infuriating case, Blumm v Northwest Natural Gas Company. They explain how an increasing number of dairy farms are more in the business of selling the methane being produced by their manure piles, or, as they call them, “lagoons,” than selling milk. Now, in Oregon, natural…
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    51 m
  • The Case of the Frankenchicken with Edie Bowles

    The Case of the Frankenchicken with Edie Bowles
    Feb 26 2025
    Edie Bowles, the Managing Director of UK law firm Advocates for Animals, joins us on this episode to help us understand what appears to be a groundbreaking decision in animal welfare law that involves one of the most widespread and egregious practices in industrial animal agriculture, the breeding of factory-farmed chickens raised for meat in ways that cause unbelievable suffering. At…
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    38 m
  • The Case of the Thirsty Elk: Saving Point Reyes’ Tule Elk with Chris Green and Rebecca Garverman

    The Case of the Thirsty Elk: Saving Point Reyes’ Tule Elk with Chris Green and Rebecca Garverman
    Jan 29 2025
    Chris Green and Rebecca Garverman join us this week to talk about a case that managed to catch the attention not only of the public at large but of a number of lawyers and, after a great deal of hard work, resulted in a historic victory. You may have heard about the plight of the Tule elk at Point Reyes National…
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    1 h y 11 m
  • The Case of the Cultivated Chicken with Paul Sherman

    The Case of the Cultivated Chicken with Paul Sherman
    Dec 25 2024
    Paul Sherman, senior attorney with the public interest law firm The Institute for Justice, joins us this week to discuss the legal battle over cultivated meat in Florida. Paul is leading the landmark lawsuit brought by UPSIDE Foods, challenging Florida’s controversial statute that criminalizes (criminalizes!) the production and sale of USDA-approved cultivated meat products in the state. This pivotal case examines…
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Animal Law Podcast 114: The Case of the Not-So-Clean Water Act

    Animal Law Podcast 114: The Case of the Not-So-Clean Water Act
    Nov 27 2024
    Emily Miller of Food and Water Watch joins us to talk about Food and Water Watch v EPA, which involves the Clean Water Act and why, when it comes to one particular industry (guess which one!), it is so ineffective in guarding our water from being polluted with outright filth. Whether it comes to the failure to require factory farms to…
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    1 h y 1 m