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Harvard University — Animal Law and Policy Program

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  • Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: Harvard University
  • Amount: $21,200

  • Award Date: October 2017

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    Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Harvard staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $21,200 to Harvard University to support the Animal Law & Policy program at Harvard Law School. The program plans to use these funds to research the policy consequences of the Protect Interstate Commerce Act, also known as the King Amendment, in key states and jurisdictions.

    This is a discretionary grant and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

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