Kathy Hessler
Kathy Hessler is the Assistant Dean for Animal Legal Education, and Director of the Animal Legal Education Initiative at George Washington University Law School. Previously she was a clinical professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School, Director of the Animal Law Clinic and Director of the Aquatic Animal Law Initiative. She is the first faculty member hired to teach animal law full time in a law school. She graduated with a J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary and received her LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.
After Law school, Professor Hessler worked at Legal Services of Northern Virginia. From there she went to a teaching fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to working at GWU, Professor Hessler taught in clinical programs at Lewis & Clark Law School, Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cornell Law School, the University of Dayton Law School, the Capital University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center. In those clinics Professor Hessler worked on animal law, domestic relations, consumer, housing, transactional, public benefits, and other civil matters.
Professor Hessler was previously a board member with the Animal Legal Defense Fund and helped found the Animal Law Committee of the Cuyahoga County Bar. Additionally, she was the chair and a founder of the Animal Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the Balance in Legal Education Section. She was also a co-chair of the Clinical Legal Education Section of the AALS and is on the board of the Center for Teaching Peace and is a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Professor Hessler co-authored (with Pamela Frasch and Megan Senatori) the amicus brief submitted in the U.S. v. Stevens case, on behalf of 45 law professors who teach animal law. She also co-authored Animal Law in a Nutshell (with Pamela Frasch and Sonia Waisman) and has written numerous other law review and other articles and she is co-authoring a new books on animal law.
Professor Hessler has been teaching Animal Law courses since 2001, and animal law concepts as a part of nonviolence class offerings beginning in 1989. Professor Hessler lectures widely on animal law and animal legal education issues in the U.S. and internationally.
After Law school, Professor Hessler worked at Legal Services of Northern Virginia. From there she went to a teaching fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to working at GWU, Professor Hessler taught in clinical programs at Lewis & Clark Law School, Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cornell Law School, the University of Dayton Law School, the Capital University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center. In those clinics Professor Hessler worked on animal law, domestic relations, consumer, housing, transactional, public benefits, and other civil matters.
Professor Hessler was previously a board member with the Animal Legal Defense Fund and helped found the Animal Law Committee of the Cuyahoga County Bar. Additionally, she was the chair and a founder of the Animal Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the Balance in Legal Education Section. She was also a co-chair of the Clinical Legal Education Section of the AALS and is on the board of the Center for Teaching Peace and is a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Professor Hessler co-authored (with Pamela Frasch and Megan Senatori) the amicus brief submitted in the U.S. v. Stevens case, on behalf of 45 law professors who teach animal law. She also co-authored Animal Law in a Nutshell (with Pamela Frasch and Sonia Waisman) and has written numerous other law review and other articles and she is co-authoring a new books on animal law.
Professor Hessler has been teaching Animal Law courses since 2001, and animal law concepts as a part of nonviolence class offerings beginning in 1989. Professor Hessler lectures widely on animal law and animal legal education issues in the U.S. and internationally.
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