Symposia

2025 Animal and Natural Resource Law Review Symposium

Topic TBD

Each year, the Animal and Natural Resource Law Review’s Managing Editor assembles an outstanding group of scholars and practitioners to speak on a topic related to animal or natural resource law. The topic and date of ANRLR’s 2025 symposium has not yet been determined. Check back for updated information later this year. See below for past symposia topics, including ANRLR’s most recent symposium, which took place on March 15, 2024.

Past Symposia

2024 — Navigating Waters: Legal and Policy Perspectives on Great Lakes Conservation and Management

2023 — The Cross-Section of Animal Law and the First Amendment

2022 — Space: The Next Legal Frontier

2020 — Cats in Captivity: Private Exotic Animal Ownership & the Horrors of Roadside Zoos

2019 — The Dilemma of Wild Horses and What To Do With Them

2018 — Service Animals and the Law

2017 — Inevitably Vegan: The History and Future of the Meat Industry

2016 — Invasive Species: More than a Pest and Legal Enforcement Issues

2015 — A Future Harvest For America's Cities: Agriculture and Livestock as a Tool for Urban Renewal

2014 — Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in a Climate Change Context

2013 — Chicken Farming in the 21st Century: A Look at the Legal, Ethical, & Environmental Concerns Associated with Poultry Confinement