Event Title
Second Panel: Ending Exotic Animal Ownership
Location
Zoom, San Francisco, CA
Event Website
http://www.calsymposium.com/
Start Date
19-3-2021 10:15 AM
End Date
19-3-2021 11:15 AM
Description
Panelists: Chris Green & Daniel Waltz
Chris Green is the Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program. He previously was the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Animal Legal Defense Fund and is the former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee. Green’s own scholarship has focused on the societal and legal value of companion animals and has been published in the Animal Law Review. Chris still regularly testifies at legislative hearings on animal protection matters and recently served on a National Academies of Sciences committee assessing the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ use of dogs in biomedical research.
As staff attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Daniel Waltz develops creative legal strategies to advocate for improved welfare and increased protections for animals. Daniel first worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund as a litigation fellow from 2012 to 2014 when he participated in Kuehl v. Sellner, which eventually set a legal precedent to protect endangered animals in captivity.
Second Panel: Ending Exotic Animal Ownership
Zoom, San Francisco, CA
Panelists: Chris Green & Daniel Waltz
Chris Green is the Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program. He previously was the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Animal Legal Defense Fund and is the former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee. Green’s own scholarship has focused on the societal and legal value of companion animals and has been published in the Animal Law Review. Chris still regularly testifies at legislative hearings on animal protection matters and recently served on a National Academies of Sciences committee assessing the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ use of dogs in biomedical research.
As staff attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Daniel Waltz develops creative legal strategies to advocate for improved welfare and increased protections for animals. Daniel first worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund as a litigation fellow from 2012 to 2014 when he participated in Kuehl v. Sellner, which eventually set a legal precedent to protect endangered animals in captivity.
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/animal_law/2021/program/3