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Dr. Rajesh K. Reddy directs the Animal Law Program at the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he serves as an Assistant Professor of Law. Currently, he teaches International Animal Law, Animal Legal Philosophy, and an Emerging Topics in Animal Law course focused on insects, among other offerings. He has served as Editor in Chief of the Animal Law Review, the world’s first law review dedicated exclusively to animal law scholarship. Outside of Lewis & Clark, Raj sits on the boards of the International Coalition for Animal Protection, Minding Animals International, and World Animal Protection. In addition to advancing the interests of animals broadly, Raj is a co-drafter of the Convention on Animal Protection for Public Health, Animal Well-Being, and the Environment, which holds the promise of becoming the world’s first treaty to contemplate the interests of animals as individual beings. Through his consultancy work, Raj helped secure the discovery rights of hippos facing mass slaughter in Colombia, with the resulting court order constituting the first recognition of animal legal personhood in the U.S. outside of mere dicta.

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Professor Nick James is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Bond University. He is a former commercial lawyer and has been practicing as an academic since 1996. He is passionate about legal education and the role of law schools in modern society. His areas of teaching expertise include law in context, legal theory, animal law, business law, and company law. He has won numerous awards for his teaching including a National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, and he is the author of several leading textbooks. He has written numerous journal articles, book chapters and conference papers in the areas of legal education, critical legal theory, disruption of the legal services sector and the impacts of climate change. Professor James is Co-Director of the Bond University Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLE), Co-Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD), President of the Australasian Animal Law Teachers and Researchers Association (AALTRA), former Chair of the Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA), and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

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Dr. Meg Good is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania School of Law and an Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Bond University Faculty of Law. She holds a PhD in environmental law, and has taught in a number of tertiary animal law courses. Meg was the former Senior Program Manager and Legal Counsel at Voiceless the animal protection institute and Head of Campaigns and Legal Counsel and co-founder at the Australian Alliance for Animals. In her spare time, she has volunteered extensively within the animal law sector, previously holding senior voluntary positions with various animal law organizations, including the Animal Law Institute, the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel and the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal. Meg is currently the Secretary of the Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association and Company Secretary/Grants Advisor at Voiceless. In recognition of her voluntary work, she was awarded the inaugural RSPCA Australia Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship. Meg is currently a Climate Campaigner at the Australian Conservation Foundation.