
Legal Resources
The Animal Legal Defense Fund provides these resources to help you learn how animal protection laws function within the legal system.
Animals and the Law
The field of animal law is complex. Use these articles as a guide to understand the fundamentals.
What You Can Do
Do you need help with a specific legal situation involving an animal? Our guides below are provided with that end in mind.
Other Resources

Animal Law Course Grants

Identifying signs of dogfighting

Industrial Animal Agriculture: Exploiting Workers and Animals

COVID-19 Policy Recommendations

Prohibiting Circuses and Traveling Acts that Use Animals

Innovation in Food Production: Plant-Based Meats

Protecting Animals Using the Freedom of Information Act
Ways to Give
Since 1979, the Animal Legal Defense Fund has been the leader in the fight to win animals the legal protection they so desperately need—and deserve. Your generous support is vital to our continued success.