{"id":1028,"date":"2009-03-06T02:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2009-03-06T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:36:55","slug":"1028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/1028\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Law Among Fastest-Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Changes in animal law have come, and not just to Pennsylvania. Other incidents of abuse and a shifting national consciousness have made this one of the fastest-growing fields in the legal profession. In 1993, just seven states had felony animal cruelty laws; today, all but four do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Animal law is where environmental law was 20 years ago. It&#8217;s in its infancy but growing,&#8221; said Pamela Frasch, who heads the National Center for Animal Law at Lewis &#038; Clark Law School in Portland, where she has been an adjunct professor for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis &#038; Clark opened the first Animal Legal Defense Fund chapter in 1992. Today it has branches at more than 115 law schools in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, nine law schools had animal law studies. Today about 100 do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason it is getting taught is student demand,&#8221; said professor David Favre, who teaches animal law at Michigan State University College of Law and is a top authority in the field. &#8220;It&#8217;s not because tenured professors wanted to teach it, it&#8217;s that students want to take it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29180079\/\">Animal cruelty laws among fastest-growing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in animal law have come, and not just to Pennsylvania. Other incidents of abuse and a shifting national consciousness have made this one of the fastest-growing fields in the legal profession. In 1993, just seven states had felony animal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/1028\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organising","tag-animal-protection-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}