Law, Environment & Animals Program

The Law, Environment & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School is a multidisciplinary think-and-do tank dedicated to empowering scholars and students to produce positive legal and political change for animals, people, and the environment upon which they depend.

LEAP works to draw the attention of leading thinkers and doers to the deep questions of conscience and law raised by human-animal relationships and industrial abuses of animals and ecosystems. To this end, LEAP leads and coordinates a diverse program of activities that serve students and scholars at Yale and that contribute to expanding and advancing the fields of environmental and animal law.