AI, Animals and the Law Hackathon Application

Part of the AI, Animals and the Law Conference
Sunday, November 9, 2025 | 9am - 5pm
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS - MONDAY NOVEMBER 3RD 2025. PLEASE APPLY EARLY SO WE CAN PUT YOU IN YOUR TEAMS AND ONBOARD YOU VIA DISCORD

George Washington University Law School, Washington DC

This hackathon is the hands-on conclusion to the Artificial Intelligence, Animals, and the Law Conference (November 7-8, 2025). After two days of exploring how artificial intelligence intersects with animal law through expert panels on ethics, policy, wildlife crime, legal applications, and environmental impact, we're building actual solutions.

This hackathon pairs legal professionals with technical developers to prototype AI-powered tools that address real problems in animal protection law. Whether it's analyzing case law, detecting wildlife trafficking, monitoring factory farms, modeling policy impacts, or liberating public records - we're turning conference insights into deployable technology.

Who This Is For: Attorneys and law students who understand animal law problems paired with developers who can build AI solutions. Legal expertise + technical skills = tools that can actually protect animals and advance legal reforms.

What We Provide: Technical infrastructure, APIs, datasets, mentorship from conference speakers, and facilitation to help legal/technical teams collaborate effectively.

What You Bring: Either legal domain expertise that identifies high-impact problems, or technical skills that can build solutions. Don't have a partner? We'll match you with a complementary team member. Oh, and please bring a laptop!

Together, we will:

· Solve real world problems based on technical needs submitted by animal protection orgs.

· Utilise the first-ever suite of AI models specifically trained for animal advocacy: Pre-trained & fine-tuned models, along with dedicated cloud compute for each team.

· Deliver expert mentorship & post-hackathon support: Top-performing projects will receive continued support to take your work forward after the hackathon, including connections with funders.

· Create a direct pipeline from technical innovation to real-world deployment.

· Develop a unique community: ours is agrowing movement of like minded people; collaborating, building and coming together to connect with other impactful people!

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Please note this is a mandatory prerequisite for taking part in the hackathon, so if you haven't registered yet, please register here

Registration is free and you don't have to attend the full conference to participate in the hackathon
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