Delcianna Winders: Justice for Animals
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Delcianna Winders is an animal law attorney, scholar, and professor. She has recently joined the Lewis and Clark Law School for Animal Studies where she will lead the newly formed animal law litigation clinic focused on the legal protections and rights of farmed animals. This is the nation's first-ever clinic focused exclusively on animal law litigation, and with its creation, Lewis & Clark Law School becomes the first law school in the world to host two separate clinics devoted to animal law. (The existing animal law clinic, founded in 2008, focuses on policy.)
Delcianna has practiced animal law for more than a decade in a variety of settings and has taught the subject for nearly as long. As Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at the PETA Foundation, Professor Winders led a team of lawyers, veterinarians, and scientists to successfully transfer over a hundred individual animals from appalling conditions to reputable sanctuaries.
She originated the legal theory underpinning the recently filed first-ever lawsuit brought by a horse and also developed and brought litigation that successfully ended the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decades-long policy of secretly and illegally issuing Endangered Species Act permits to roadside zoos and circuses.
She is leading a team of future lawyers in the fight to change a system that has perpetuated enormous amounts of unnecessary suffering toward animals throughout the US. Animals everywhere are very lucky to have Delcianna on their side.
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| 0:00.0 | We have a captive tiger crisis in America. |
| 0:04.0 | There are more tigers in backyards and basements |
| 0:07.3 | and bathrooms in the United States |
| 0:09.0 | than there are left in the wild in the entire world. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, this is Elizabeth Novograt's welcome to Species Unite. The podcast where we talk to people who are fighting some of the hardest fights on earth |
| 0:23.6 | to stop the unnecessary suffering of animals. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's conversation is with Delcyana Winders. |
| 0:30.0 | Delcyana is an Animal Law attorney scholar and professor and she might be one of the most informed people on the planet. |
| 0:35.6 | For over a decade she was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at the PETA Foundation, |
| 0:40.4 | and she's recently accepted a new position at Lewis and run the world's only animal law litigation clinic |
| 0:57.2 | here at Lewis and Clark. |
| 0:58.2 | Congratulations. |
| 0:59.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:00.2 | So tell us what that means? That means that I will essentially be running a mini law firm with students as the lawyers here at Lewis and Clark |
| 1:10.8 | and that will give students amazing hands-on practice litigating |
| 1:15.0 | cases for animals so that they can then go out in the world and be animal lawyers and |
| 1:20.0 | we will be focusing for the first year at least on farmed animal litigation specifically. |
| 1:26.4 | Students will actually get to go into court. |
| 1:28.8 | I'll be with them every step of the way because part of the point of this is to to cultivate our next |
| 1:35.4 | generations of animal lawyers but they will actually be practicing animal law. |
| 1:39.3 | Give us some examples of what that what you're going to be fighting for. So at the most |
| 1:44.0 | basic level we will be fighting for the billions of animals raised for their |
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