Animals and the Constitution with Michael Dorf

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Society & Culture, Documentary, News, News Commentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this intellectually stimulating episode of the Animal Law Podcast, Mariann Sullivan speaks with constitutional law expert Michael Dorf about his innovative course “Animals and the Constitution.” Dorf shares how fundamental legal principles intersect with animal protection, revealing both the limitations and opportunities within our constitutional framework for advancing animal rights. This episode explores: Constitutional standing for animals: How courts determine…

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Animal Law Podcast.
0:07.8	We have something a little bit different for you this month.
0:10.3	Michael Dorff.
0:11.3	He has, of course, visited us on both the Animal Law podcast on our henhouse in many different
0:17.0	capacities at many different times.
0:18.9	He's coming on this week to talk about what he actually
0:21.6	does, teach constitutional law. He's going to teach us some constitutional law. And he has been teaching
0:27.2	his students in constitutional law specifically as it relates to animals, which I bet you're thinking
0:32.0	it doesn't relate to animals whatsoever, but of course it does, because everything does. Welcome,
0:37.0	Michael. I'm actually going to
0:38.1	skip the rest of your wildly impressive bio and just... Yeah, that's fine. You can assume people
0:42.7	either know who I am or don't care. It's pretty much the same for all of this, isn't it? Right. Yeah.
0:49.5	All right, just a quick reminder before I would get to that about the Our Hen House podcasts, rising anxieties, comes out on Tuesdays.
0:57.1	The Hen Report on Thursdays and the Long-Farm interview, including this one, on Fridays, and bonus for flock members comes out on Monday.
1:04.1	We're a podcast and we're on YouTube.
1:06.1	Please subscribe and hit like wherever you listen.
1:09.1	That really, really helps us out.
1:11.3	And Michael, I'm excited to talk about this.
1:14.1	I have to say, usually I'm very up to speed when, well, or I try to be anyway, when I
1:19.2	interview people about a case or whatever, but I'm kind of flying blind here.
1:22.4	I'm just going to ask you questions about this course, and hopefully I can interrupt
1:27.0	you from time to time with
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