Gislason Timeline of Engagements

Gislason keynoted at the annual meeting for the Minnesota Foundation for Responsible Animal Care (MN FRAC), the largest Agricultural Consortium in Minnesota, participated on a panel with renowned Professor Bernard Rollin at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Veterinary Association, and spoke about Animal Law at the MSBA’s Rural & Farm Institute.

She gave a lecture on "Animal Law and the Livestock Industry" at the University of Minnesota Department of Animal Science in 2004, and also the Edina Rotary Club. She chaired an Animal Law Continuing Legal Education program at the annual MSBA Convention, and gave a speech on the Endangered Species Act.

Gislason has also been a guest on a variety of radio shows, including Discovery Channel, American Public Radio, and the Pat Miles show. She has been quoted by news outlets around the country, including Animal Planet.com, and FoxNews.com, as well as newspapers affiliated with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she was featured in a story.

At the 2007 ABA Annual Meeting, she presented "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: Designing a Poison Pill for a Social Movement" as part of the TIPS Freedom of Speech symposium, which was an ABA presidential selection. She was featured as the cover lead story in the DVM News Magazine, the premier veterinary publication in the country, on the subject of veterinary malpractice. In 2007, she made the first in-house presentation on Animal Law for Thomson Reuters, formerly known as West Publishing Company. In the presentation, she helped the lawyers and editors at the leading legal book publisher in the world understand the complexities and growth of Animal Law. Her presentation was re-broadcast to legal editors around the country.

More recently, she participated as a moderator in the Duke University School of Law program "Animals &  Bioengineering: A Consideration of Law, Ethics, and Science." Speakers at this two day program included Bill Reppy, Justice Michel Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada, Dr. Norka Ruiz Bravo of the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, Joyce Tischler of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Professor David Favre, who teaches Animal, Environmental and Property Law at Michigan State Law School, and Steven Wise, an Animal Rights lawyer who taught the first course at Harvard Law School.

Gislason serves on the U.S. Department of Justice Project Advisory Committee for the Regional Institute for Community Policing (RICP) Animal Rescue and Restore Project, and on the Animal Work Group for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Response Plan (NRP) revision. This committee is led by USDA’s Allan Hogue and USDHA’s Tom McGinn.

Her contributions to Animal Law were acknowledged in the New York Times and she has been featured in the ABA Journal, Minnesota Law & Politics, Maddie's Fund Newsletter and the book Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster. She has been a contributor to the Animal Wise Radio program and a guest on national radio shows in the U.S. and abroad, and Dr. Phil McGraw called her "the top animal advocate in the country" on the Dr. Phil Show.

In August 2008, Barbara J. Gislason appeared in Producer/Director Kim Walsh's documentary "Left Behind Without a Choice." Currently, she visited South Africa as part of an American Bar Fellows People to People delegation, where she had an individual meeting with the Chief Executive Officer and lead veterinarian of Kruger National Park. She has continued with her many responsibilities described above and Jill Mariani and Gislason, after receiving sponsorship from the ABA-TIPS Enterprise Fund, will soon be doing a pilot radio program. Stay tuned for more information.  Please also review our Testimonials.