Located at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, The Center for Animal Law Studies is the only comprehensive Animal Law program available in the United States. The program has been offered since the early 1990s; in 2008, the Lewis and Clark Law School teamed up with the Animal Legal Defense Fund to create The Center for Animal Law Studies. The Center offers several courses focused on Animal Law, including Animal Rights Law Jurisprudence, Comparative International Animal Law, and International Wildlife Law, in addition to the Animal Law Review and externship and seminar opportunities.
In 2009, TV personality Bob Barker gave the University of Virginia's law school a $1 million endowment to create a formal animal-rights program. The first course with an exclusive focus on animal law was debuted during the 2009-2010 school year. The money is also being used to fund independent study and externship opportunities, support visiting speakers on animal law topics, and sponsor prizes for a writing competition open to all graduate students attending the University of Virginia, law school students or not.
George Washington University's Law School has one of the most rapidly advancing programs in Animal Law in the United States. The school offers the Animal Welfare Pro Bono Project, which focuses on studying and improving welfare laws for animals in the District of Columbia area. The school offers an Animal Law and Wildlife Protection Seminar. In 2005, the law school partnered with The Humane Society to create the Animal Law Litigation Project, which gives law school students the chance to work side-by-side with the Humane Society's legal team on animal defense cases.