Hadley Family Foundation
The Hadley Family Foundation has generously funded three levels of Fellowships in the Animal Law Program:
JD HADLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP
Recipients:
Lisa Scholtz (JD 2026)
Lisa is currently earning her Juris Doctor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. During law school Lisa has been an executive member in the Environmental Law Club and the president of the Animal Justice Club. She was the inaugural recipient of the Hadley fellowship, spending the summer after her first year of law school working at Animal Justice. Prior to law school she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Western University.
Maya Hribar (JD 2027)
Maya is entering her third year at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Since completing a degree in Criminology, Law & Society, she has spent her summers working with a non-profit organization and legal aid clinic, helping protect vulnerable groups and working towards important law reform. Maya’s projects include advocating for reform of Ontario’s air pollution regulation regime, conducting research for local projects in Northern Ontario, and currently, helping Animal Justice in important precedent-setting litigation that can significantly impact the wellbeing and lives of animals. On her spare time, Maya enjoys playing with her extremely-energic (yet adorable) Blue Heeler, collecting mugs, and binging psychological thrillers (the best ones being from the ‘90s!).
DOCTORAL AWARD
Recipient:
Ricardo Díaz-Alarcón (SJD Candidate)
Ricardo is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in animal law, comparative law, and legal theory, particularly the ways in which animal law intersects with the rights of nature and Indigenous legal orders.
Ricardo received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. cum laude from Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia. He was awarded a Public Interest Fellowship from Harvard Law School to work for one year at Animal Outlook. Prior to that, he worked for two years as a legal and policy adviser for the city council in Bogotá, where he worked on legal reforms related to the use of animals.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ANIMAL LAW
Recipient:
M.H. (Man Ha) Tse
M.H. is the 2024-2026 Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She received her LL.M. from the Faculty in 2015 and her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School where she was affiliated with the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program. Her postdoctoral work builds on her S.J.D.. dissertation Domestic Predation: A Legal Architecture of Human Systems of Extractive Violence (2024) and she is teaching an animal law seminar at U of T Law in the fall of 2025.
M.H. is also the creator and director of The Museum of Human Predation, at https://the-arc.org/museum, which is part of the Animal Remembrance Commission. The mission of the Museum, which includes an online archive, pop-up exhibits, and print publications, is to preserve a material record of the human practice of domestic predation on other animals and to provide a resource for public reflection on this practice.
