https://law.yale.edu/animals/people

For a delightful moment, I thought Yale Law School decided to set up its naming hierarchy with animals on top, and underneath it with separate directories for people, cats, dogs (whether pets or bulldog mascots), and so on. Regrettably not: Turns out https://law.yale.edu/animals is the site of the Law, Environment & Animals Program, and the /people subdirectory is for the staff. Rats!

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[Stupid Government Tricks]

No, the Yale mascot is a bulldog, not a rat.

Although I don't know about the law school. They may well think they need a more appropriate mascot.

[David Nieporent]

Wait, did "Rats!" refer to the animals or the people?

[Sasha Volokh]

yale.edu/animals/chordates/mammals/primates/hominids/people/knowing

[John F. Carr]

From the job descriptions and animal/person summaries:

"Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Fellow"

"Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Research Scholar"
Sounds sillier than it is: "During this time, she led the program’s research initiative examining the intersection between zoonotic disease and animal industries— a project that spanned more than 4 years and 15 countries."

"she produced scholarship analyzing the feasibility of criminalizing ecocide as the fifth core crime under the Rome Statute"

Three peas in a pod:
"She is also currently working on a theological analysis on human life and animal life, from a focus on drawing comparison between human end-of-life ethics and animal rights for lab animals."
"She is interested in the relationship between animal ethics and religion."
"She is interested in Environmental Theology and Philosophy, including Animal Theology and Christian Food Ethics, and Eco-Justice and the Global South."

"Prior to law school, she worked for a holistic public defense organization in New York City and assisted clients with the civil legal issues that resulted from their contact with the criminal legal and family regulatory systems."

"a justice-impacted scholar"

"He is interested in the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and deforestation and in legal strategies for holding corporations accountable for their environmental impacts."

"There, he completed a senior thesis applying conceptual tools from feminist philosophy in order to establish a critique of latent anthropocentric norms within American legal institutions."

"the consequences of anthropocentrism on wildlife management". This reminds me of visiting Prairie Dog State Park and finding the woman in the park office didn't care for prairie dogs. Kansas state parks are for zipping around on high speed watercraft. The prairie dog town is about an acre embedded within a human-centric park.

"She is interested in connecting her studies on the contemplative wisdom of early Christian ascetics to modern understandings of animal ethics."