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 was the inaugural recipient of the Hadley Family Foundation Fellowship, spending the summer after her first year of law school working at Animal Justice. During law school, Lisa was an executive member in the Environmental Law Club and the president of the Animal Justice Club. She starting her articling at the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman in July 2026.
Maya Hribar (JD 2026)
Maya was the 2025 recipient of the Hadley Family Foundation Fellowship, working at Animal Justice in the summer after her second year of law school at the Henry N.R. Jackman 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 during her Hadley Family Foundation Fellowship helping Animal Justice in important precedent-setting litigation.
Christine Park (JD 2028)
Christine worked with Animal Justice as the Hadley Family Foundation Fellow in the summer of 2026. She is a member of the Animals and the Law class in the Fall of 2026 and is working with the Animal Law Program at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law through the University of Toronto chapter of Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) on the Animal Law Digest Canada (ALDC) and the Animal Law Research Guide.
DOCTORAL AWARD
Recipient:
Ricardo Díaz-Alarcón (SJD Candidate)
Ricardo is a doctoral candidate at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law, 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.
Recent Publication:
Ricardo Díaz-Alarcón, “Toward an Animal Law from the South: Why More-Than-Human Rights Flourished in Latin America” (2026) 2 Public Humanities 1.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ANIMAL LAW
Recipient:
M.H. (Man Ha) Tse
M.H. was the 2024-2026 Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Law at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law. She received her LL.M. from Jackman Law 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 built on her S.J.D. dissertation Domestic Predation: A Legal Architecture of Human Systems of Extractive Violence (2024), a monograph under contract with Cambridge University Press.
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.
In the fall of 2025, M.H. taught at seminar at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law and mounted a Museum of Human Predation exhibit at the Bora Laskin Law Library, which ran from September 12 to November 21. She is currently an Animal Law Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Institute, Vermont Law and Graduate School.
Testimonials
– Maya Hribar (JD 2026, JD Hadley Family Foundation Fellowship Recipient Summer 2025)Working with Animal Justice has been completely transformative. Through my time as a legal student, I helped protect vulnerable animals and promoted public awareness of the harm and exploitation they endure. You can see the real difference that Animal Justice makes in our world through the advancements it has brought in the legal protections afforded to animals. I was fortunate to be able to have been a part of this change.
My work during the summer was both intellectually and emotionally fulfilling. I got firsthand experience in a wide range of areas of law, including administrative law, criminal law, health and safety, and civil procedure, to name a few. I worked with an amazingly kind, passionate, and helpful team of lawyers who have helped me become a better legal researcher and animal advocate. Whether it was helping prepare documents for litigation, briefing the public on current issues and welfare concerns, or researching how to improve regulations, my time with Animal Justice is something I will forever be grateful for. I highly recommend this experience and opportunity - it will change the way you look at and operate in the legal industry and society at large.
– Ricardo Díaz-Alarcón (SJD Candidate)The Hadley Fellowship has given me something that has been incredibly valuable during my doctoral studies: the time and space to read deeply, think through complex problems, and develop my ideas in conversation with people who have thought about these questions for years. Having the opportunity to learn from and exchange ideas with many knowledgeable scholars has helped me see my own research from different perspectives and work through questions that require the kind of sustained conversation that is hard to find elsewhere.
– M.H. Tse, Inaugural Hadley Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Law 2024-2026Serving as the inaugural Hadley Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Law at the University of Toronto has enriched my scholarly life immensely, and I am deeply grateful to the Hadley Family Foundation for making the fellowship possible. The fellowship gave me the freedom and support to advance my work through teaching the Faculty’s animal law seminar, The Law of Human and Animal Relations, launching my creative research practice with the Museum of Human Predation, and developing my legal monograph on domestic predation. Above all, I am honoured to have been present for the launch of the Animal Law Program — the only program of its kind in Canada and a milestone for Canadian animal law. To have helped mark that beginning, and to have done this work in the company of colleagues who share its aims, is something I will always value. My thanks to the Hadley Family Foundation and Professor Fernandez for their incredible support of the fellowship, to Kira Berkeley, Krystal-Anne Roussel, and Sooin Kim for being such wonderful partners and colleagues, and to everyone at the Faculty who made this fellowship so rewarding.
