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Delcianna Winders

Titles

  • Director, Animal Law and Policy Institute
  • Associate Professor of Law
  • Faculty Representative, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees

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Biography

Delcianna J. Winders is an associate professor of law and Director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at VLGS. Professor Winders previously taught at Lewis & Clark Law School, where she directed the world’s first law school clinic dedicated to farmed animal advocacy. She served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at the PETA Foundation, was the first Academic Fellow of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program, and was a visiting scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her primary interests are in animal law and administrative law. She has also taught animal law at Tulane University School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. 

Her work has appeared in the Denver Law Review, Florida State Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, NYU Law Review, and the Animal Law Review. Winders has also published extensively in the popular press, including The Hill, National Geographic, Newsweek, New York Daily News, Salon, U.S.A. Today, and numerous other outlets.

Winders received her BA in Legal Studies with highest honors from the University California at Santa Cruz, where she was named a Regents’ Scholar and received the Dean’s Award for outstanding achievement in Social Sciences, and her JD from NYU School of Law, where she was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal for outstanding contributions to the law school, named as a Robert McKay Scholar, and served as the Senior Notes Editor of the NYU Law Review. Following law school, Winders clerked for the Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced animal law in a variety of settings.

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise

  • Animal Law

Departments

  • Animal Law
  • Environmental Law Center
  • Summer Session

Courses Taught

  • Animals and the Law
  • Animal Protection Policy
  • Animal Welfare Law
  • Communications, Advocacy and Leadership
  • Legislation and Regulation
  • Natural Resources Law
  • Torts
  • Science of Animal Law and Policy