The 2023 Wanda Nash Awards from the SBM Animal Law Section Council will be presented to Annie Sloan, Michigan Law School and Rebecca Sutton, Michigan State University College of Law.
The annual award recognizes graduating students who have had the most impact on animal law, based on nominations by law school professors. It was established in 2006 as a tribute to the Section's founder. Both Sutton and Sloan serve on the Animal Law Section Council this past year as law student representative.
Sutton was nominated by Professor David Favre. In addition to animal law classes, she interned for several national animal welfare organizations gaining varied and substantive experiences in research, writing, the regulatory system, litigation strategy, the politics/policy in issues from the protection of wildlife to puppy mills; was a leader in MSU’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, serving as president this past year with a priority on engagement with students who are less familiar with animal law through events geared toward more general audiences (including an event at a local cat café); planned the 2023 symposium for the Journal of Animal and Natural Resources Law, “The Cross-Section of Animal Law and the First Amendment,” as the journal’s Managing Editor, which included securing participation of experts and moderating the virtual event. She has been volunteering for a Michigan-based animal law organization by compiling a spreadsheet of relevant federal regulatory actions for use in the organization’s monthly newsletter.
Sloan was nominated by Professors Andy Buchsbaum, Nicolas Cornell and William Novak. They cite her scholarship and her unwavering efforts to bring an animal law perspective to all her endeavors; her development of the Michigan Law’s Food Equity & Ecological Diversity Society (FEEDSoc) reflecting her interest in food and environmental justice – which included the successful campaign to have vegan offerings at law school functions; and her advocacy at the law school and campus-wide to stop the use of pesticides, rodenticides, and glue traps. She has interned for national organizations; and has co-written a proposal that has been selected for the Oxford Summer School of Animal Ethics in August 2023. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Law & Society, featuring scholarship at the intersection of law, history and social science.
Sloan will be honored April 14; Sutton will be honored May 11. Each will receive a framed certificate and an honorarium. Both ceremonies will feature food and refreshments and will be available virtually
The Animal Law Section was founded in 1995 and is the first State Bar Section in the country focused on Animal Law.
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