Dr. Jonathan Lovvorn

Biography

Jonathan Lovvorn is a Clinical Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He co-founded the Animal Legal Environment Alliances Program (LEAP) and has served as its faculty co-director from 2019 to 2024. Lovvorn's teaching and scholarship focus on the intersection of animal law, environmental law, and food policy, seeking practical legal solutions to advance diverse public interest causes. He co-teaches the Climate, Animal, Food, Environmental Law & Policy Lab, which provides a creative space for students, faculty, and experts to devise and propagate novel legal policy strategies aimed at compelling industrial animal agriculture to bear the externalized costs of its operations on animals, workers, communities, and the environment. He has taught courses on animal and environmental law at prestigious law schools including Harvard, Georgetown, and NYU, and has extensive litigation experience on behalf of animals and the environment. Lovvorn also serves as Chief Counsel for Animal Protection Litigation at the Humane Society of the United States and acts as a board member and legal advisor for various animal and environmental protection organizations.

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