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HSUS, Animal Rights, and Animal Law School Joint Ventures

(MeatingPlace) — 16 Jun 09

A dog represented by an attorney in court may sound like a joke, but it’s not funny. It seems that animal rights law is rapidly growing in US law schools. According to the Lewis & Clark School of Law in Oregon,” animal law is a developing area of law encompassing any and all legal matters relating to animals, much in the same way that Environmental Law encompasses a broad range of issues.” Now, I’m not at all sure I know what that means, but I am sure that I need to learn more.

George Washington University Law School and the Humane Society of the United States, HSUS, have a joint venture, the Animal Law Litigation Project, which is intended to “improve enforcement of animal protection laws.” According to the Wall Street Journal, Bob Barker of The Price is Right Fame has donated millions to various law schools to establish animal law programs. Some of the schools benefiting from his generosity include Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford and UCLA.

I suspect that the upsurge in law schools offering course in this area is because there is a need for clarification of issues such as “cruelty”. Like pornography, the definition is obvious from more than one point of view. I wonder when the ACLU will get on this bandwagon. And, in case you think this is a fringe movement, prestigious schools like Harvard Law, Duke, University of Virginia and Stanford are offering courses.

Those of us in animal agriculture need to pay attention. The law should be above emotion, however, my fear is that like virtually everything else surrounding animal welfare, the law too will become tainted with emotion.

Dean A. Ayers
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

http://AnimalsClubFreedom.us/

“United States Officially Certified Site”

Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger.

Dean is currently Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News © and DogPress.org news press services.

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NationalDogPress.com Headline News © ALERT

HSUS, Animal Rights, and Animal Law School Joint Ventures

(MeatingPlace) — 16 Jun 09

A dog represented by an attorney in court may sound like a joke, but it’s not funny. It seems that animal rights law is rapidly growing in US law schools. According to the Lewis & Clark School of Law in Oregon,” animal law is a developing area of law encompassing any and all legal matters relating to animals, much in the same way that Environmental Law encompasses a broad range of issues.” Now, I’m not at all sure I know what that means, but I am sure that I need to learn more.

George Washington University Law School and the Humane Society of the United States, HSUS, have a joint venture, the Animal Law Litigation Project, which is intended to “improve enforcement of animal protection laws.” According to the Wall Street Journal, Bob Barker of The Price is Right Fame has donated millions to various law schools to establish animal law programs. Some of the schools benefiting from his generosity include Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford and UCLA.

I suspect that the upsurge in law schools offering course in this area is because there is a need for clarification of issues such as “cruelty”. Like pornography, the definition is obvious from more than one point of view. I wonder when the ACLU will get on this bandwagon. And, in case you think this is a fringe movement, prestigious schools like Harvard Law, Duke, University of Virginia and Stanford are offering courses.

Those of us in animal agriculture need to pay attention. The law should be above emotion, however, my fear is that like virtually everything else surrounding animal welfare, the law too will become tainted with emotion.

Dean A. Ayers
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

http://AnimalsClubFreedom.us/

“United States Officially Certified Site”

Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger.

Dean is currently Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News © and DogPress.org news press services.

Fair Use Notice: Pursuant to Title 17 U.S.C. 107, other copyrighted work is provided for educational purposes, research, critical comment, or debate without profit or payment. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for your own purposes beyond the ‘fair use’ exception, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.