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The Animal Law Podcast

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The Animal Law Podcast

Mariann Sullivan, Law Professor, Pundit, Vegan

Wayne Hsiung’s Landmark Animal Rescue Appeal Wins Some, Loses Some: What It Means for the Right to Rescue

June 26, 2026 4:00am 1:20

Animal law attorney and activist Wayne Hsiung joins host Mariann Sullivan along with attorneys Chris Carraway and Steffen Seitz of the University of Denver’s Animal Activist Legal Defense Project to break down the Califo...

When the Law Fails Farmworkers: J-1 Visa Exploitation, Labor Trafficking, and the Hidden Cost of Cheap Meat

May 29, 2026 4:00am 57 min

In this episode of the Animal Law Podcast, host Mariann Sullivan speaks with Amal Bouhabib, senior staff attorney at FarmSTAND, about a landmark federal lawsuit involving three young men from Guatemala who were recruited...

Court Strikes Down Trump ESA Regulations — A Win for Endangered Species

April 24, 2026 4:00am 1:07

In a landmark ruling, a federal court in the Northern District of California struck down four of six challenged Trump administration regulations that had significantly weakened the Endangered Species Act’s core enforceme...

Canada’s Live Horse Exports: Fighting for Animal Transport Law Enforcement w/ Camille Labchuk

March 27, 2026 4:00am 1:05

When Canadian animal rights lawyer and Animal Justice Executive Director Camille Labchuk discovered that a Manitoba horse exporter had shipped 97 horses to Japan in December 2022 — on a rerouted flight projected to excee...

Understanding EU Farmed Animal Welfare with Dr. Neil Dullaghan

February 27, 2026 4:00am 1:05

In this episode of the Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan sits down with Dr. Neil Dullaghan, political scientist and author of The Compassion Mandate: Remaking the European Union’s Leadership on Farmed Animal Welfare. ...

A Case of Significant Evil: Animal Law, Activism, and Constitutional Rights

January 30, 2026 4:00am 1:19

In this compelling episode, Mariann Sullivan interviews Wayne Hsiung and attorney Steffen Seitz about Wayne’s conviction following animal rescues at factory farms in California. The case hinges on several groundbreaking ...

The Case of the Lobster, a “Living, Sentient Creature”

December 26, 2025 4:00am 54 min

In a bold legal challenge that could redefine animal protection law, PETA is taking on the Maine Lobster Festival for steaming 16,000 lobsters alive on public parkland. The case hinges on Maine’s unique animal cruelty st...

Animals and the Constitution with Michael Dorf

November 28, 2025 4:00am 1:02

In this intellectually stimulating episode of the Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan speaks with constitutional law expert Michael Dorf about his innovative course “Animals and the Constitution.” Dorf shares how fundam...

The Case of the Overlooked Law: Challenging Animal Confinement Through Forgotten Legislation

October 31, 2025 4:00am 49 min

Attorneys Will Lowrey (Animal Partisan) and Jessica Blome (Greenfire Law) join Mariann to discuss their battle to use California’s century-old animal protection laws to help dairy calves confined in tiny hutches. Despite...

The Case of Banning the Truth in a Public Park | First Amendment, Animal Agriculture & Free Speech

September 26, 2025 4:00am 1:10

In this thought-provoking episode of the Animal Law Podcast, we dive into a First Amendment case that cuts straight to the heart of animal advocacy: can the government prevent activists from showing the public what actua...

Animal Law Breakthrough: Court Recognizes Dogs as Family Members with Christopher Berry

August 29, 2025 4:00am 1:07

This episode of the Animal Law Podcast features Christopher Berry, Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, discussing a groundbreaking court case that recognizes companion animals as family members in certain ...

Challenging “Alligator Alcatraz”: The Legal Fight to Protect the Everglades with Elise Bennett

July 25, 2025 4:00am 55 min

In this compelling episode, Mariann Sullivan speaks with Elise Bennett, Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, about the lawsuit challenging the controversial immigration detention facility in Florida’s ...

Redefining Democracy: How Constitutional Law Could Embrace All Sentient Life

June 27, 2025 4:00am 1:02

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 Raff...

Is Ventilation Shutdown Legal? Private Citizens Fighting Factory Farm Cruelty

May 23, 2025 4:00am 51 min

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 ...

Can an S.P.C.A. Prevent Cruelty to Cows? with Alene Anello

April 30, 2025 4:00am 43 min

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...

The Case of the Cows, the Gas, and the Money with Kelsey Eberly and Skye Walker

March 26, 2025 4:00am 50 min

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 Case of the Frankenchicken with Edie Bowles

February 26, 2025 4:00am 38 min

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 wid...

The Case of the Thirsty Elk: Saving Point Reyes’ Tule Elk with Chris Green and Rebecca Garverman

January 29, 2025 4:00am 1:10

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 ...

The Case of the Cultivated Chicken with Paul Sherman

December 25, 2024 5:00am 1:05

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 U...

Animal Law Podcast #114: The Case of the Not-So-Clean Water Act

November 27, 2024 5:00am 1:00

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 gua...

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