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Professor Jodi Lazare, DCL

26th June 2023

is an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she teaches Animal Law. She holds degrees in both civil law and common law from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Laws and Doctor of Civil Law from McGill University. Prior to joining Dalhousie, she worked as a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Michael J. Moldaver at the Supreme Court of Canada. Her work in animal law focuses on the law’s treatment of companion animals upon family breakdown and the constitutional dimensions of laws aimed at suppressing animal rights activism in Canada. That work, which maintains that the ethics of animal rights activism and related practices are constitutionally protected activity, appears in the Alberta Law Review and the Osgoode Hall Law Review. Her current work uncovers and examines the exceptional treatment of animal agriculture by law and policymakers through legislation aimed at punishing animal rights activists and the disproportionate use of public funds and resources that directly and indirectly function to protect and promote animal agriculture. She has given expert testimony before provincial and federal legislative committees studying proposed legislation to protect animal agriculture and has appeared in popular media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the Chronicle Herald.