Acknowledgments

AuthorLesli Bisgould
ProfessionAdjunct Professor, Faculty of Law
Pages15-16
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ACK NOW LED GEMEN TS
I must start by gratefully acknowledging Irwin Law’s interest in pub-
lishing a book about anima ls and the law, and the decision that the sub-
ject is an essential one for its collection. Alisa Posesorski was keenly
interested and was so easy to deal with that the process was enjoyable.
My colleagues at the Clinic Resource Off‌ice were very supportive
of the effort to get this book written. Katryn Pereira did everything she
could to get me the time I needed to write it, and many others helped
me stay up-to-date on developments.
I am so grateful for the generous contributions of four women who
were law students at the time we began to talk about animals. Maria
Golarz, Camille Labchuk, Annalea Pippus, and Tina Sun each did re-
search and drafting for a respective chapter, of which I made signif‌i-
cant use in the f‌inal version. I am thankful, not only for the work they
saved me, but for the inspiration I draw from the committed intellec-
tual approach they took to the subject. Others helped me put the pieces
together. Thank you to Mark Arnold and Kate Kempton for answering
questions, and to Kathy Bocsi and Charlene Schafer for helping with
some research.
I thank and admire Clayton Ruby, who has been such a gener-
ous mentor and who has represented the interests of animals, and the
people who advocate for them, with the same determin ation and whole-
heartedness with which he is known to f‌ight for human rights.
I am motivated by many advocates for anima ls who work long hours
in bleak subject matter, persevering to tell truths that some people

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