About the Author

• Author: Lesli Bisgould
• Profession: Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law
• Pages: 305-305

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lesli Bi sgould has been a litigator in Ontario since 1992. She began in

the f‌ield of civil litigation and then spent ten years in her own practice

in animal r ights law, the only practice of its kind in Canada. She has

written and lectured w idely on the subject of animal rights and the

law and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s

Faculty of Law, where she instructs a semina r entitled “Introduction

to Animals and the Law.” She has argued at every level of court and

deputed at every level of government. In recent years, her full-time

work has been in the f‌ields of poverty and human rights law. She is

currently the bar rister at Legal Aid Ont ario’s Clinic Resource Off‌ice

where she assists caseworkers at Ontario’s community legal clinics

with their appeals. All the opinions expre ssed in this book are those of

the author alone and not those of Legal Aid Ontario or of the Universit y

of Toronto.