Wildlife Law has gained significant visibility in recent years because of the rising interest in biodiversity protection, both as a free-standing conservation goal and as a means of promoting healthy landscapes where people live and work. Once restricted to a modest corner, wildlife law now stands at the confluence of three formerly distinct legal fields: environmental law, land-use planning, and natural resources law. All three fields address concerns about the ways people dwell on the land, concerns that relate to, and include worries about, the plights of other forms of life and ecological processes. This course explores the common law fundamentals of the subject as well as contemporary disputes about species protection, ecosystem-level land management, and game-ranch operation. Topics include: the rule of capture; the duration and nature of private rights in wildlife; animal-welfare concerns; wildlife and private land; private game ranches; the state ownership doctrine; state fish and game laws; the Lacey Act and bird conservation statutes; biodiversity science and policy; the Endangered Species Act; and the promotion of biodiversity at the landscape scale. The course is suitable for both law students and graduate students in wildlife-related disciplines.The course has no prerequisites, and is appropriate for law students at all levels.