The current federal administration, in the name of reducing regulatory burdens for industry, is scaling back animal protections. American citizens consistently support meaningful legal protections for animals. Despite significant strides in recent years, our laws provide far fewer protections than polling shows that the public supports and even believes to already exist. And the limited protections provided on paper often go un-enforced. In this talk, Professor Delcianna Winders will discuss recent federal assaults on basic animal protections, including under the Animal Welfare Act and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, and will provide an update on the legal battles to challenge those assaults and suggest additional potential avenues.

Professor Delcianna Winders directs the Animal Law Litigation Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School, the world’s only law school clinic dedicated to farmed animal advocacy. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous law reviews, and she has published extensively in the popular media. Prior to joining the Lewis & Clark faculty, Professor Winders was vice president and deputy general counsel for the PETA Foundation, the first academic fellow of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program, and a visiting scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She has also taught animal law at Tulane University School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She frequently gives talks on animal law subjects, has been interviewed by many major national and international news outlets, and was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine as one of “Six Women Who Dare.” Winders received her BA in Legal Studies from the University California at Santa Cruz, and her JD from NYU School of Law. Following law school, she clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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