Dr. Viveca Morris

Biography

Viveca Morris is a Research Scholar and the Executive Director of the Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School. She investigates the impacts of big business on the environment, with recent research focusing on the role of multinational agribusinesses in the climate crisis. Her work aims to hold these agribusinesses and their associated actors accountable for the environmental impacts and externalized costs of their practices. Morris is dedicated to policy reforms needed to make agriculture sustainable, humane, and resilient. She founded the Law, Environment & Animals Program, a multidisciplinary initiative addressing large-scale industrial abuses of animals and their significant impacts on the planet, in partnership with Faculty Co-Directors Doug Kysar and Jonathan Lovvorn. At Yale, she has spearheaded multiple initiatives, including the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Accountability Initiative, which assesses climate change litigation strategies related to animal agriculture emissions. Morris is also involved in various research initiatives such as the Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative and hosts the Yale University podcast “Talk Animals,” which features interviews with leading thinkers on topics related to animals.

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