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Person-Post: Professor Lisa Johnson, JD

1st February 2010

is an Associate Professor of Law, Ethics, and Environmental Studies at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches environmental law and animal law. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and a certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. She received her MPA from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs with a focus on international environmental policy. Her BA in history was from Indiana University. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation at Portland State University, where she is developing a Foucualtian study concerning the conception of nonhuman animals in Western political thought. Her primary research interests include the legal status of animals, religion and animals as it has informed political and secular modern thought, moral theory relating to animals, and animal ethics. She has written several teaching cases, book chapters, articles, and book reviews concerning animals. She has won several awards for her teaching cases from Indiana University/Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and from the North American Case Research Association, and she has received two awards for teaching at her university. She has recently joined the Journal of Animal Ethics as Consultant Editor.