Litigation is a tool for change. Animal welfare laws are too often ignored. That’s why Advancing Law For Animals creates novel pathways to enforce existing laws through innovative legal strategies. It specializes in issues impacting animals exploited in industrial agriculture and experimentation.

Animal Defense Partnership (ADP) protects animals by providing free legal services to nonprofits that advocate for animals and plant-based diet change.

Animal Justice is Canada’s only national animal law advocacy organization. They believe that animals need lawyers, and their legal team works to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the western world, and their mission is to overhaul the legal system to better reflect Canada’s values of compassion and justice for all.

The Animal Law Foundation is a collective of lawyers and those interested in animal protection, with the aim of ensuring a robust legal framework for animals.

It will undertake legal research, provide information and education on animal law and where necessary bring legal challenges to ensure that animal law is being interpreted and applied as intended.

Animal Partisan uses the legal system to end the suffering of animals in slaughterhouses, farms, and laboratories by discovering, exposing, and challenging unlawful conduct in all its forms.

Animal Rights Initiative is successfully working to prevent Octopus Farming.

FarmSTAND is the only legal advocacy organization in the country dedicated solely to taking on industrial animal agriculture. It is focused on dismantling the structures that enable the consolidation of corporate power and extractive practices in the food system.

Food Solutions Action works with federal and state policymakers to ensure that American farmers, businesses, and research institutions lead the world in solving the impending global protein gap.

The Nonhuman Rights Project is an American animal rights nonprofit organization seeking to change the legal status of at least some nonhuman animals from that of property to that of persons, with a goal of securing rights to bodily liberty and bodily integrity.

Representing Animals works toward a reduction in the production, consumption, and other uses, of non-human animals globally. Those animals still used for human purposes should experience better welfare.

SEED recognizes the entanglement of human and non-human life, working to advance justice for animals, nature, and communities. Our primary programs focus on facilitating strategic litigation to enforce federal environmental statutes, like the Clean Water Act, against large factory farms, as well as undercover investigations into animal facilities. 

Vermont Law School’s Animal Law Society is dedicated to providing a forum for education, advocacy, and scholarship directed towards protecting the lives and advancing the interest of animals through the legal system, and raising the profile of the animal law field.