Harvard offers course on animal law CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Harvard Law School is going to the dogs. For the first time, the school will offer a course on what some consider an emerging field: animal rights law. The elective class next year will discuss fundamental rights - why humans are entitled to them and why animals have been denied them - and whether legal rights should be extended beyond people. While the law currently protects pets from abuse and endangered species from extinction, animals do not actually have rights - an age-old position of the legal system. But over the last 50 years, science has shown that some animals have extraordinary mental capacities beyond what the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews ever imagined. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560081357-62d>
