Carter Dillard
As the Senior Policy Advisor, Carter helps develop Animal Legal Defense Fund direction and strategies, and oversees the organization’s constitutional litigation against the United States regarding its failure to respond to the climate crisis. Carter worked previously as the Animal Legal Defense Fund Director of Litigation, during which time he helped quadruple the number cases the organization had filed, and helped oversee its first undercover investigations. Prior to joining the Animal legal Defense Fund, Carter served as an Honors Program attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and as a legal advisor to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the National Security Law Division. He has taught on the faculties or held appointments at University of Oxford, Lewis and Clark Law School, Emory University School of Law, and Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law. Carter has been a peer reviewer for the journal Bioethics, his work has been published by Yale and Duke.