By Victoria Shroff ( September 24, 2018, 2:42 PM EDT) -- Animal law is not a new area of law, but it may seem that way to those outside the practice area. Animal law is informed by more than animal related statutes and case law involving animals. To put things in context, laws involving animals have been around for centuries, and similar to how decades ago we didn’t have “environmental law,” but just cases involving forests, rivers, trees etc. until that branch of law came to be collectively labelled environmental law....