Guide to Representing Animal Protection Organizations

Daina Bray is a clinical lecturer and senior research scholar in Law with the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, where she leads the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative. Daina previously served as general counsel of the nonprofits Mercy For Animals and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and practiced with major international law firms in the areas of litigation and international arbitration. Daina is a past chair of the ABA International Animal Law Committee, the ABA TIPS Animal Law Committee, and the Tennessee Bar Association Animal Law Section. Daina received a JD from Stanford Law School with pro bono distinction, a BA in international studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar, a Fulbright scholarship for research in environmental education, and the 2021 ABA Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award. Yolanda Eisenstein is an attorney with experience in animal, wildlife, and nonprofit law. She is president of the Animal Law Commission of Paris-based Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), where she focuses on international wildlife issues and represents the UIA at the United Nations in New York. She is vice chair of the ABA International Law Section Animal Law Committee. In 2018, Eisenstein received the ABA Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award in recognition of her work to advance the humane treatment of animals through the law. She developed and taught the first animal law and wildlife courses at SMU Dedman School of Law. Eisenstein’s books include Careers in Animal Law, The American Bar Association Guide to Dog Laws, and Wildlife Law and Ethics (co-editor with Bruce Wagman). She was a contributor to Animal Cruelty: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding.