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Robyn Hederman, JD

1st April 2015

is the Principal Court Attorney for a New York State Supreme Court Justice and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She has worked on various publications on behalf of the Animal Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is also a member of the Animal Law Committee of the American Bar Association where she sits on the Animals in Science and Technology Subcommittee. Ms. Hederman has a Master of Arts in History and is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. Her research focuses on the commonalities between animal advocacy and other reform movements in nineteenth-century America. Her publications include “Gender and the Animal Experiments Controversy in Nineteenth-Century America,” in A. Linzey and C. Linzey eds., The Ethical Case Against Animal Experiments (University of Illinois Press, 2018), and “The Cost of Cruelty: Henry Bergh and the Abattoirs” in A. Linzey and C. Linzey eds., Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (Routledge, 2018).