{"id":44236,"date":"2021-10-04T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/?p=44236"},"modified":"2021-10-04T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:59:07","slug":"companion-animal-law-writing-contest-the-american-kennel-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2021\/10\/04\/companion-animal-law-writing-contest-the-american-kennel-club-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Companion Animal Law Writing Contest &#8211; The American Kennel Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Kennel Club<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (AKC) is pleased to announce the fifth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/akcgr.org\/akc\/writeaboutanimallaw\">\u2018Companion Animal Law Writing Contest\u2019<\/a> (www writeaboutanimallaw.com\/)! The contest begins on August 23rd and is opened to all students currently enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/akc\/file\/flJZIlg4CD4\/corgi%20with%20human%20at%20computer%20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The contest will offer a first-place prize of\u00a0<strong>$2500<\/strong>\u00a0and a second-place prize of\u00a0<strong>$500.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students are asked to choose between two topics:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/akc\/file\/h3t2FUQ9d1i\/Combo_website_FINAL_Aug23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The impact of\u00a0\u201clawyers for dogs\u201d laws on animal cruelty cases or the constitutionality of mandatory spay\/neuter laws<\/a>.\u00a0 This year\u2019s topics offer students the unique opportunity to discuss legal perspectives on issues currently in the news and at the forefront of animal law.<\/p>\n<p>Entries will be judged by legal and public policy professionals with experience in laws impacting companion animals.<\/p>\n<p>Contestants can enter now through <strong>April 1, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. EST.<\/strong> To learn more about the contest, including official rules and policies,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/akc\/file\/h3t2FUQ9d1i\/Combo_website_FINAL_Aug23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Kennel Club\u00ae (AKC) is pleased to announce the fifth annual \u2018Companion Animal Law Writing Contest\u2019 (www writeaboutanimallaw.com\/)! The contest begins on August 23rd and is opened to all students currently enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school. The contest will offer a first-place prize of\u00a0$2500\u00a0and a second-place prize of\u00a0$500. Students are asked to choose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2021\/10\/04\/companion-animal-law-writing-contest-the-american-kennel-club-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Companion Animal Law Writing Contest &#8211; The American Kennel Club<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-announcements","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}