Angela Fernandez
Professor
Faculty of Law & Department of History, University of Toronto
Angela Fernandez teaches animal law at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where she is a Full Professor and Director of the Animal Law Program, launching in the Fall 2025. She is the author of Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture (Cambridge University Press 2018) and numerous book chapters and articles. From 2020-2023, she helped organize the Canadian Animal Law Conference with Animal Justice and the Scholar's Track of the North American Animal Law Conference with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law & Policy. She has been supervising the production of the Brooks Animal Law Digest: Canada Edition since October 2021 and the Animal Law Research Guide with the Bora Laskin Law Library since March 2022. Since starting to teach animal law in 2019, she has supervised over a dozen JD research papers, along with several Masters students, and a Doctoral and Post-Doctoral student, all in the area of animal law, work which the new Program at UofT will continue to foster and of which this project is a part.
Session: Evaluating the Impact of Canada’s 2020 Animal Transport Regulation Amendments
