Jerrold Tannenbaum
Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine
Adjunct Professor, School of Law

Department of Population Health & Reproduction
Mail : 1114 Tupper Hall
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-754-8809
Fax: 530-752-4278
E-mail: jtannenbaum@ucdavis.edu

Biographical sketch

Law 224, Animal Law, returns in January 2009, in the Law School's Spring Semester. The course is open to second and third year law students at King Hall. A limited number of graduate students may be permitted to register for graded graduate school units in connection with the course.

Education
A.B. and M.A. in Philosophy, Cornell University.
J.D., Harvard Law School.

Research interests
Animal law and ethics; biomedical ethics; veterinary ethical, legal, and policy studies; animal research ethics; animal welfare science and ethics.

Teaching
VMD 436: Veterinary Ethics and Law, course leader. [Required core course for first year veterinary students.]
VMD 437: Veterinary Ethics and Law, course leader. [Required core course for third year veterinary students.]
Veterinary Ethics Rounds, course leader. [Required ethics presentation and seminar for fourth year veterinary students.]
Law 224: Animal Law, course leader. [Seminar course for second and third year law students, others by permission of the instructor.]
PHR 199, 298, 299: Independent and group study in ethics and law for undergraduate, professional, and graduate students.
Lecturing in undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses on ethical issues relating to animals, veterinary medicine, the use of animals in research, and the responsible conduct of research.

Service
Service on UCD and School of Veterinary Medicine committees; frequent speaker at meetings and continuing education seminars on issues in animal and veterinary law and ethics.

Selected  publications
"The Paradigm Shift Toward Animal Happiness: What It Is, Why It Is Happening, and What It Portends for Medical Research," in Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul (editors), Why Animal Experimentation Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research, Transaction Publishers, 2001. "Animal Rights and Animal Research," in A.L. Kraus and D. Rehnquist (editors), Bioethics and the Use of Animals in Research, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, 2000. "Ethics and Pain Research in Animals," ILAR Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, 1999. "Animals and the Law: Cruelty, Property, and Rights," Social Research, Vol. 62, No. 3, 1995. Veterinary Ethics: Animal Welfare, Client Relations, Competition and Collegiality, Second Edition, Mosby, 1995.

Selected presentations
"Bioethics and the Hamburger Principle: From Xenotransplantation to Chimeras and Back." American Physiological Society Walter C. Randall Lecture in Bioethics, 2008 Annual Experimental Biology Meeting. "Farm Animal Welfare and the Law." Lecture series sponsored by UCD Agricultural Law Society, 2004. "Animal Welfare: Process and Policy." Meeting of the House of Delegates, California Veterinary Medical Profession, 2003.  "Ignoring the Infrastructure: Is There Time to Save Biomedical Research?" Annual Joint Meeting of the California Biomedical Research Association and the California Society for Biomedical Research, 2003. 

Work in progress
Papers on ethical issues raised by the production of human-animal chimeras in biomedical research; case book on animal law.