{"id":82031,"date":"2020-09-30T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=82031"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T19:11:24","slug":"akcs-companion-animal-law-writing-contest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/09\/30\/akcs-companion-animal-law-writing-contest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AKC&#8217;s Companion Animal Law Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/akcgr.org\/akc\/writeaboutanimallaw\">The American Kennel Club<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (AKC)<\/a> is pleased to announce the fourth annual Companion Animal Law Writing Contest!\u00a0The contest begins on August 10th and is opens to all students currently enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/akc\/file\/flJZIlg4CD4\/corgi with human at computer .jpg\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contest will offer a first-place prize of <strong>$2500<\/strong> and a second-place prize of <strong>$500.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are asked to choose between two topics: <a href=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/akc\/file\/lhUQUBBoLOZ\/questions.pdf\">forfeiture of an animal and the legal treatment of animals as property.<\/a> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entries will be judged by legal and public policy professionals with experience in laws impacting companion animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contestants can enter now through March 31, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. EST. To learn more about the contest, including official rules and policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/cqrcengage.com\/akc\/file\/1cU8nJzxOiI\/Companion%20Animal%20Law%20Writing%20Contest%202020%20rules_final.pdf\">please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You can also \u201cLike\u201d the contest on Facebook:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/writeaboutanimallaw\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/writeaboutanimallaw\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Kennel Club\u00ae (AKC) is pleased to announce the fourth annual Companion Animal Law Writing Contest!\u00a0The contest begins on August 10th and is opens to all students currently enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school. The contest will offer a first-place prize of $2500 and a second-place prize of $500. Students are asked to choose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/09\/30\/akcs-companion-animal-law-writing-contest-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AKC&#8217;s Companion Animal Law Writing Contest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82035,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82031\/revisions\/82035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}