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Professor David B. Rosengard, JD

26th June 2023

is a managing attorney at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, where he engages with criminal justice stakeholders to protect the lives and improve the legal position of animals. In this context, he has a focus on jurisprudence, translating theory into practice, and situating animals as individuals with legally cognizable interests separate from those of the state and defendants – animal victims’ rights, by any other name. David is an adjunct professor of animal law at Lewis & Clark Law School, from which he received his JD and Animal Law LLM. He regularly guest lectures for academic and practitioner audiences within the USA and internationally. In addition to authoring various amicus briefs and law review articles, David is a co-editor of Animal Law in A Nutshell (second edition), a contributing author to Animal Cruelty Investigations: A Collaborative Approach from Victim to Verdict, and a co-editor and contributing author of Animals As Crime Victims.