Animal Law Courses
There are 167 law schools in the U.S. and Canada, and 11 in Australia and New Zealand, that have offered a course in animal law. Interested in starting an animal law class at your school? Learn how!
Note: We update this list regularly, but academic schedules change yearly and some courses may no longer be offered. For updated information on a specific course below, please contact the referenced law school directly.
Arizona
- Arizona State University (Tempe)
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- Loyola Law School (Los Angeles)
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No Entries Found - University of California-Davis (Davis)
No Entries Found - University of California-Hastings (San Francisco)
No Entries Found - University of California-Irvine (Irvine)
No Entries Found - University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
No Entries Found - University of San Diego (San Diego)
No Entries Found - University of San Francisco (San Francisco)
No Entries Found - University of the Pacific (Sacramento)
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- University of Colorado-Boulder (Boulder)
No Entries Found - University of Denver (Denver)
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- Quinnipiac University (North Haven)
No Entries Found - Univeristy of Connecticut (Hartford)
No Entries Found - University of Connecticut (Hartford)
No Entries Found - Yale University (New Haven)
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- Florida State University (Tallahassee)
No Entries Found - Nova Southeastern University (Fort Lauderdale)
No Entries Found - Stetson University (Gulfport)
No Entries Found - University of Florida (Gainesville)
No Entries Found - Unviersity of Miami (Coral Gables)
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- Emory University (Atlanta)
No Entries Found - Georgia State University (Atlanta)
No Entries Found - University of Georgia (Athens)
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- DePaul University (Chicago)
No Entries Found - ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago)
No Entries Found - Northwestern University (Chicago)
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- Univeristy of Kentucky (Lexington)
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- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge)
No Entries Found - Tulane University (New Orleans)
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- University of Maine (Portland)
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- Universirty of Baltimore (Baltimore)
No Entries Found - University of Maryland (Baltimore)
No Entries Found - Unversity of Maryland (Baltimore)
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- Harvard University (Cambridge)
No Entries Found - Massachusetts School of Law (Andover)
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- Michigan State University (East Lansing)
No Entries Found - University of Detroit Mercy (Detroit)
No Entries Found - University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
No Entries Found - Wayne State University (Detroit)
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- University of Missouri-Kansas City (Kansas City)
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- University of Montana (Missoula)
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- University of Nebraska (Lincoln)
Animals and Agriculture Production-Law and Policy
University of Nebraska
Lincoln,Nebraska
US
- University of New Hampshire (Concord)
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- Rutgers University (Camden)
No Entries Found - Seton Hall University (Newark)
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- Brooklyn Law School (Brooklyn)
No Entries Found - New York University (New York City)
No Entries Found - Pace University (White Plains)
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- Duke University (Durham)
No Entries Found - North Carolina Central University School of Law (Durham)
No Entries Found - Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)
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- Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)
No Entries Found - Cleveland-Marshall University (Cleveland)
No Entries Found - University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati)
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- Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland)
No Entries Found - Willamette University (Salem)
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- Drexel University (Philadelphia)
No Entries Found - Temple University (Philadelphia)
No Entries Found - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
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- Charleston Law School (Charleston)
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- South Texas College of Law (Houston)
No Entries Found - Southern Methodist University (Dallas)
No Entries Found - St. Mary’s University (San Antonio)
No Entries Found - Texas A&M University (Fort Worth)
No Entries Found - University of Houston (Houston)
No Entries Found - University of Texas (Austin)
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Virginia
- George Mason University (Arlington)
No Entries Found - University of Richmond (Richmond)
No Entries Found - University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
No Entries Found - William & Mary University (Williamsburg)
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- American University (Washington D.C.)
No Entries Found - George Washington University (Washington D.C.)
No Entries Found - Georgetown University (Washington D.C.)
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- West Virginia University (Morgantown)
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