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Schulich Law Professor’s Research Turned Into Comic Form

Posted by Joel Guerin on November 25, 2021 in News, Research, Marine & Environmental Law Institute
Professor Jodi Lazare
Professor Jodi Lazare

In February 2021, Professor Jodi Lazare was contacted by , a social justice comic studio, that wanted to turn her research on Canadian ag-gag legislation into a comic, accessible to all. The resulting comic is based on two articles by Lazare, the first published in the  and the second forthcoming in the . Both articles combine her interests in animal law and constitutional law to suggest that recently adopted legislation limiting access to and information about industrially farmed animals in Canada constitutes an unjustified limit to the constitutional right to freedom of expression and the public right to information about the violence of industrial animal farming. Images were inspired by the work of .