Iselin Gambert

Iselin Gambert is professor and director of the Fundamentals of Lawyering program and is the faculty co-director of the GW Law Animal Legal Education Initiative at The George Washington University Law School. Iselin teaches a seminar she designed called Gender, Race, Species and co-teaches an undergraduate course titled Envisioning a Compassionate Food System for Humans, Animals, and the Environment. She previously taught an interdisciplinary course in critical animal studies at Lund University (Sweden). Iselin’s scholarship spans multiple fields including language and rhetoric, critical animal studies, critical race theory, food law and policy, and feminist legal theory. She has written extensively on the subject of milk; her article Got Mylk? The Disruptive Possibilities of Plant Milk was a Wall Street Journal “Notable & Quotable.” She is a recipient of a 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship, and was the 2024 Vermont Law and Graduate School Distinguished Animal Law Scholar.

Session: Prefigurative Animal Law: Actualizing Human-animal Utopias in the Here and Now