Conference Agenda

Friday, April 9, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Registration, Reception & vegan hors d’oeuvres
Location: George Washington Ballroom, Sheraton Commander Hotel

7:15 – 7:30 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stephen Wells, executive director, Animal Legal Defense Fund

Saturday, April 10, 2010
All of the Saturday and Sunday panel sessions and meals will take place at Harvard Law School. Registration will be open at 8:00 a.m. Saturday in the Austin Hall lobby.

7:30 – 9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast Buffet
Location: Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Room 212

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Law Student Workshop
Location: Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
With: Pamela Alexander, Tom Linney and Nicole Pallotta (Animal Legal Defense Fund) and Kathy Hessler and Pamela Frasch (Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School)

9:00– 11:45 a.m. Charting a Course for the Protection of Farmed Animals: Legal and Economic Approaches  
Location: Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
Peter Stevenson, chief policy advisor, Compassion in World Farming
Dr. Patrick Brown, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Bailey Norwood, associate professor of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
Bruce Myers, senior attorney, Environmental Law Institute
Carter Dillard, of counsel to HSUS, Westerfield Fellow, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Joyce Tischler, general counsel, Animal Legal Defense Fund

11:45 a.m.  – 12:45 p.m. Lunch 
Location: Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Room 212

1:00 - 2:15 p.m.  Canine CSI?: Advances in Investigating and Prosecuting Cruelty to Animals
Location: Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
Steve Payne, detective, Oregon State Police; vice president, BKForensics, LLC
Dr. Melinda Merck, forensic veterinarian, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Scott Heiser, Criminal Justice Program director, Animal Legal Defense Fund

2:15 – 2:25 p.m. Break

2:25 – 3:50 p.m. Pet Theories: Breaking New Ground with Companion Animal Law
Location: Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
Dr. Sebastien Gay, Economics lecturer, University of Chicago
Bruce Wagman, chief outside legal counsel, Animal Legal Defense Fund, partner, Schiff Hardin LLP
Stephan Otto, legislative affairs director, Animal Legal Defense Fund

3:50 – 4:00 p.m. Break

4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Almost a Person: What Lies Ahead for Chimpanzees? 
Location: Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom
Steven M. Wise, author; president, Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, Inc.
Sarah Baeckler, executive director, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
Dana Campbell, attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund, adjunct professor, Cornell Law School

5:30 – 6:00 p.m.  Cocktails
Location: Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Room 212

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner and Awards
Location: Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Room 212
Keynote speaker: Richard Wrangham, primatologist, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University

Sunday, April 11, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast Buffet
Location: Pound Hall Lobby, 1st Floor

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.  Concurrent Panels:
I. Replacing the Use of Animals in Toxicity Testing: A Mandate for the New Millennium
Location: Pound Hall, Room 101
Dr. Paul Locke, associate professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health       
Pamela Alexander, Animal Law Program director, Animal Legal Defense Fund, adjunct professor, University of Chicago Law School
Kathy Hessler, director, Animal Law Clinic, Center for Animal Law Studies,  Lewis & Clark Law School                   

II. Defining the Second Wave of Animal Law
Location: Pound Hall, Room 102
Robert Klonoff, dean and professor of law, Lewis & Clark Law School
Paul Waldau, president, Religion and Animals Institute; Bob Barker Lecturer, Harvard Law School, spring 2010
Pamela Frasch, assistant dean and executive director, Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School
David Wolfson, partner, Global Corporate Group, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 – 12:00 noon  Concurrent Panels:
I. Proposing a Federal Animal Protection Commission: Updates and Next Steps
Location: Pound Hall, Room 101
Adam Roberts, vice president, Born Free USA
Daniel Press, attorney, Van Ness Feldman
Tom Linney, attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund

II. Putting the Critter in Critical Legal Theory: Lessons from Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Feminist Jurisprudence
Location: Pound Hall, Room 102
Angela Harris, professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Taimie Bryant, professor, UCLA Law School
Matthew Liebman, attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Maneesha Deckha, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria

12:00 noon  Closing Remarks
Location: Pound Hall, Rooms 101 and 102