About The Lecturer

Kevin Schneider is an attorney admitted to practice in New York and acts as legal counsel to the Earth Law Center. Kevin was among a team that represented the elephant Happy in a historic habeas corpus case before New York’s highest state court. For over a decade, Kevin has worked on extending legal rights to animals and ecosystems. Among other publications, he wrote the chapter on “Nonhuman Rights” for the law textbook Earth Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2021). Kevin is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Law (J.D.) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston (B.A., Political Science).

Email [email protected]; Cell 1-857-991-4148.

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Practice Area(s)

Environmental Law

Animal

Publications

 “Nonhuman Rights” chapter in Earth Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2021)

Education

University of Massachusetts, B.A.

Florida State University College of Law, J.D.

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