Grass Roots Animal Legislation

By Russ Mead

Passing animal legislation can improve the lives of thousands, or even tens of thousands, of animals. In Grass Roots, Animal Legislation author Russ Mead looks at over 20 different types of state and local animal welfare laws. These are laws that are having a real impact on animals somewhere in the United States. For example, laws that make dog chaining illegal. Or banning veal crates that are so small that calves can't turn around. Each chapter has three examples of existing or proposed laws designed to help animals in some way. There is also a corresponding academic article describing the issues involved with each of these types of laws. This book is a materials resource for an animal law class on animal legislation.

Author Russ Mead is both an animal law activist and an animal law professor. He is a frequent speaker at animal law conferences. His other textbooks include Nonprofit Animal Law, Farm Animal Law and Trial Advocacy in Animal Law.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Russ Mead
• Release date: Dec 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463788813

Russ Mead

Russ Mead is the Shared Earth Foundation Visiting Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. Russ teaches in the JD program and the Animal Law LLM program. Russ is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer at animal law conferences and law schools, including Cornell, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. Previously, he served as General Counsel for Best Friends Animal Society. He was the General Counsel and interim Executive Director of Farm Sanctuary. Russ holds a BS in Accounting from Arizona State University, an MBA from Lindenwood College, and a JD from St. Louis University School of Law, and earned a CPA license. He lives with his wife Laura on the Oregon Coast. In his spare time, he attempts to capture the spirit of animals in ink wash paintings. Russ is the author of the textbooks, “Nonprofit Animal Law’, "Trial Advocacy in Animal Law", "Farm Animal Law - Readings and Materials", "Grass Roots Animal Legislation", and "Step By Step Legislative Drafting for Advocates".