8:30-9:00

Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:55

Panel:  Agriculture and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

• Ryke Longest, Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University
• Don Butler, Former President of the National Pork Producers Council
• Josh Balk, Director of Corporate Policy of the Humane Society of the U.S.
• Kay Johnson Smith, President of the Animal Agriculture Alliance
• Moderated by Ray Starling, General Counsel to the NC Department of Agriculture and Adjunct Professor at UNC School of Law

9:55-10:05

Break

10:05-11:35

Round Table Discussion:  Local Animal Law in North Carolina

• Calley Gerber, Animal Law Attorney at Gerber Animal Law Center
• Pam Fulk, Executive Director at Carolina Tiger Rescue
• Amanda Arrington, Executive Director at Coalition to Unchain Dogs

11:35-11:45

Break

11:45-12:45

Keynote Speaker:  Molly Mullin, Visiting Duke Anthropology Professor

Molly Mullin is a visiting anthropology professor at Duke University, and will speak on challenging the conventional dichotomies between humans and animals, nature and culture, domesticated and wild.

12:45-1:45 lunch

Lunch:  Vegan Entrée’s Catered by Mediterranean Deli

1:45-2:45

Panel: Hunting Laws

• Kindra Mammone, Executive Director at Claws, Inc.
• David T. Cobb, Wildlife Management Division Chief at NC Wildlife Resources Commission

2:45-3pm Break

Break

3pm-4pm

Special Guest Speaker:  Geoff Fleck, ALDF Attorney

Geoff Fleck is an attorney with the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s (ALDF) Criminal Justice Program, and will speak on the link between animal abuse and human violence, including domestic violence.