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Academic Scholarship

Mutual Liberation: The Use and Abuse of Nonhuman Animals by the Carceral State and the Intersectionality of Oppression, 12 U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 312 (2022).

What Comes After Defund: Lessons from Police and Prison Abolition for the Animal Protection Movement, 28 Animal L. Rev. 89 (2022).

A Fare Share: A Proposed Solution to Address the Racial Disparity in Access to Public Transportation Funding in America, 26 Mich. J. of Race & L. 521 (2022).

Other Writing

Brazilian Court Upholds Historic Fine Against the Country's Largest Exporter of Live Animals by Sea, Am. Bar Ass'n Int'l Animal L. Comm. Year in Review (forthcoming) (co-authored with Paula Cardoso and Gabriela Rudge Machado).

Animal Control Laws, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (forthcoming).

[Review] Samantha King et al. Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food. Fordham University Press 2019. J. Animal Ethics (2024).

DEIJ in the Practice of Animal Law, in Representing Animal Protection Organizations: A Legal Guide for Lawyers and their Clients (2023) (co-authored with Akisha Townsend Eaton).

[Review] Tom Tyler. Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity. University of Minnesota Press 2022. 152 pp., 11 Animal Studies J. 113 (2022).

Dietary Drawdown: Addressing the Leading Role of Animal Agriculture in Fueling the Climate Crisis by Enacting the Plant Based Treaty, Am. Bar Ass'n Int'l Animal L. Comm. (Winter/Spring 2022).

Harms to Animals, People, and the Environment: Legislative and Litigation Efforts Around the World to End the Live Export of Farmed Animals, 49 Int’l L. News 13 (Spring 2022) (co-authored with Daina Bray and Paula Cardoso).

Despite States Banning the Sale of Shark Fins, the U.S. Continues to Play a Large Role in the International Shark Fin Trade, Am. Bar Ass’n Animal L. Comm. (Fall 2021).

6 Ways for Law Students to Get Involved with Animal Law, Age of Awareness (Jul. 28, 2021).

How Animals Are Portrayed in Video Games, Medium (May 20, 2021).

How the Dairy Industry Lies to Us, The Shadow (Feb. 1, 2021).

Paying into the Community Chest: The Case for a Progressive Wealth Tax for Canada, Centre for Canadian Progress (2020) (co-authored with Shaughna Cooper, Joe Roberts, Silas Xuereb, and Annie Yeo).

Why A National Rent Control Plan Could Help Solve the Housing Crisis, Policy Brief, The George Washington University (2019).

A Literature Review of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Laws, M.A. Research Paper, Columbia University (2016).

Speaking

How ALDF Uses Food Labeling to Protect Animals and the Planet, Speaker, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Animal Welfare and Climate Change Symposium, Mar. 2024.

Litigating for Farmed Animals Using Consumer Protection Laws, Guest Lecturer, Lewis & Clark Law School, Oct. 2024.

Representing Farmed Animals, Guest Lecturer, DePaul College of Law, Apr. 2024.

The Use and Abuse of Nonhuman Animals by the Carceral State and the Intersectionality of Oppression, Guest Lecturer, Lakehead University Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Jan. 2023.

Critical Carcerality: Liberating Animals and Humans from the Carceral State, Panelist, Canadian Animal Law Conference, Sep. 2022.

Teaching Animal Law as a Multidimensional Social Justice Issue, Student Panelist, Canadian Animal Law Conference, Sep. 2022.

Academic Activism, Panelist, Animal Justice Academy Lunchtime Live, Sep. 2022.

Theoretical Foundations of Restorative Justice for Animals, Panelist, Animals and Restorative Justice Symposium, Vermont Law School, Jul. 29, 2022.

Floating Ship of Horrors: How the Live Animal Export Industry Exemplifies the Worst of Modern Agriculture, and International Efforts to Curb the Trade, Presenter, Animal Advocacy/Défense Animale Animal and Environmental Law Student Conference, Jan. 15, 2022.

Ag-Gag Litigation: Updates from the Field, Moderator, Hosted by the GW Law Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, GW Law American Constitution Society, and the GW Environmental and Energy Law Program, Nov. 17, 2021.

Animal Victimhood in Criminal Cases, Panelist, Canadian Animal Law Conference, Oct. 2, 2021.

The Rights Of and To Nature: What They Mean for Future Generations, Panelist, Hosted by the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice, Apr. 7, 2021.

Michael has also been a panelist at a University of Chicago Law School career event and a guest speaker in Lakehead University's Bora Laskin Faculty of Law animal law class, among other academic invitations and engagements.