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Kimberly Moore

2nd December 2020

is a Senior Attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in federal income tax law, private equity investments and public private partnerships and where she is a national expert on tax advantaged affordable housing programs.  She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as Managing Editor of the Virginia Tax Return, and received an elite LLM degree from New York University in Taxation.  She is an active member of the D.C. Bar, an associate member of the Virginia State Bar and a member of the Animal Law Committee of the American Bar Association.  She is the Director of Public Relations for Fur Free Society, Inc. and has worked on state legislation to ban the sale and manufacture of fur.  She has also represented and advised animal welfare organizations on formation and fundraising matters, has assisted organizations in obtaining their I.R.S. 501(c)(3) status and helped an international animal sanctuary set up a “friends of” charitable organization in the United States.  She participates in podcast and radio interviews and is a frequent speaker at conferences on issues associated with the treatment of animals and has sponsored conferences to advance the legal status of animals.  In 2018, she gave the keynote address at the Fifth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School on Animal Ethics and the Law (Creating Positive Change for Animals) on why laws matter for animals.  Her research projects include a critique of the marketing of fur by the fur industry as “green” and “eco-friendly,” the impact of fur farming on the environment, and the marketing of fur to children. Her research interests include improving the legal status of animals and exploring the use of established public private partnership paradigms to improve the lives of animals on factory farms.  Kimberly is the author of The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals, Humanity’s Shared Destiny with the Animal Kingdom (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, 2023).