Professional Scholarship Award

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Description:

Each year, our organization also presents AALA Scholarship Awards which are intended to recognize and encourage scholarly work of AALA Members.

Criteria:

In selecting professional winners, the AALA Awards Committee considers criteria including the excellence in quality of writing, the relevance to important legal issues in agriculture, broadly defined, the clarity of analysis, the potential impact, and other attributes of scholarship.

Past Recipients:

2018		Defining the Role of Conservation in Agricultural Conservation Easements, 44 Ecology L. Q. 627 (2017). Jess R. Phelps

2017		Levitt & Negowetti, Agricultural “Market Touching”: Modernizing Trespass to Chattels in Crop Contamination Cases, 38 Univ. Hawai’i L. Rev. 409-445 (2016). Adam J. Levitt and Nicole Negowetti

2016		Whole Foods: The FSMA and the Challenges of Defragmenting Food Safety Regulation, 41 American Journal of Law & Medicine, 447-458 (2015). Stephanie Tai
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2015	…………….	Agricultural Biotechnology—An Opportunity to Feed a World of Ten Billion, 118 Penn. St. L. Rev. 859 (2015). Nina V. Fedoroff and Drew L. Kershen