This session is designed to encourage discussion of how universities could be important spaces for championing animal advocacy, and how this might be achieved. This works from the proposition that universities can – and should – champion community and wider social justice goals (Wilson, 2022) – and resist forces associated with the 'neoliberal cascade' (Connell, 2013). From this, it is suggested that foregrounding values of societal awareness and citizenship in student learning and experience can 'trickle down' in the wider community, by being disseminated beyond university spaces by highly educated graduates (Wilson, 2022; 2025), and could become a setting for championing animal rights. With an emphasis on encouraging change within university spaces themselves to achieve this, the session invites discussion on how universities might be encouraged to become more socially conscious and socially just entities through the promotion of non-human animal interests. For this, special attention is paid to a proposed unique position of law schools within universities for supporting this agenda. Speaking to how well-placed law schools might be for this, the paper explores the power law schools enjoy within the Higher Education sector, their global reach, and their strong proximate intellectual expertise in ethics and philosophy, rights, and social justice. Testing these ideas within a community that shares my values and seeking feedback and encouragement from this diverse and inspiring community are the primary goals of this session.