Pamela Vesilind

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Pamela Vesilind is an adjunct professor and scholar-in-residence at University of Arkansas Law School, teaching Animal Law and pursuing an LL.M. degree in the Food & Agriculture Law Program.  She is also a Fellow in the Vermont Law School Center for Agriculture & Food Systems and an instructor with the VLS Distance Learning Program, teaching Natural Resources Law and Environmental Law Writing & Advocacy.  In recent years as a visiting assistant professor at VLS, she taught Animals & the Law, Property Law, Professional Responsibility, and Legal Methods.  Recent publications in the animal law and food law area include Emerging Constitutional Threats to Food Labeling ReformContinental Drift:  Agricultural Trade & the Widening Gap between European Union & United States Animal Welfare Laws; and Animal Law, Obscenity, & the Limits of Government Censorship.  Forthcoming articles include Animals & Exigency, arguing for the application of the Fourth Amendment exigency standard to the rescue of animal victims of cruelty, and The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act is Unconstitutional, but That’s Not a Bad Thing.  SSRN page: http://ssrn.com/author=762256