Acknowledgments

• Author: Lesli Bisgould
• Profession: Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law
• Pages: 15-16

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ACK NOW LED GEMEN TS

I must start by grateful ly acknowledging Irwi n 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 ea sy to deal with th at 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 t alk about animals. Maria

Golarz, Camille L abchuk, Annalea Pippus, and Tin a Sun each did re-

search and draft ing for a respective chapter, of which I made signif‌i-

cant use in the f‌inal version. I am thankf ul, 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 interest s of animals, and the

people who advocate for them, with the same determin ation and whole-

heartedness w ith which he is known to f‌ight for human right s.

I am motivated by many advocates for anima ls who work long hours

in bleak subject matter, persevering to tell tr uths that some people