ENV 990a,b/Law 30241 (Tentative) () (Tentative) / 2025-2026

Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law & Policy Lab — Pre-Registration Deadline: TBD

Credits: 3 Fall 2025: Time and location TBA Spring 2026: Time and location TBA

Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law & Policy Lab (“CAFE Lab”) (30241). 3 units. Students in the CAFE Lab will work with faculty, outside experts, and non-governmental organizations to develop innovative litigation and legislative initiatives to bring systemic change to the global food industry, which is one of the top contributors to climate change, animal suffering, human exploitation, and environmental degradation worldwide. The Lab’s primary focus areas for 2022-23 include litigation to address GHG emissions from industrial agriculture and legislative models to hold industrial food producers accountable for the currently uncounted, externalized costs of industrial agriculture for animals, workers, communities, and the environment.

Students enrolled in the Lab will work directly with the teaching team, NGO attorneys, and a wide range of stakeholders with expertise in food, animal, climate, and environmental law on real-world litigation and legislative intervention projects. The Lab will include orientation and training sessions, and students will be required to meet regularly with Lab instructors and outside partners and experts, either as a group or in subgroups as we collaborate in each area of our work. More information on CAFE Lab projects is available for review on the CAFE Lab website. Enrollment limited. Permission of instructors is required. Also ENV 981. D. Kysar, J. Lovvorn, D. Bray, and V. Morris.

Note: Attendance at the first class meeting is mandatory for admitted students and for those on the waiting list who wish to remain in consideration for admission if a place becomes available. Admitted students must confirm their participation in advance of the first class by a date designated by the instructors. A no-drop policy applies. Students who have accepted their places may drop up until August 20 but cannot drop during the normal add/drop period after classes begin.

Note: Students from other graduate and professional schools are welcome to apply to this course by sending a resume and statement of interest directly to Professor Kysar (douglas.kysar@yale.edu) by August 15.