Professional Scholarship Award

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Description

Each year, our organization presents AALA Scholarship Awards, which are intended to recognize and encourage scholarly work of AALA members. Two kinds of Professional Scholarship Awards may be presented. One is for academic work (journals, articles, etc.), and the other is for court briefs and amicus briefs that cover a specific agricultural topic or legal analysis.

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 effects, and other attributes of scholarship.

Academic articles on an agricultural topic:

  • Journals
  • Articles
  • Other published materials

Court briefs and amicus briefs:

  • Thorough analysis or discussion on an agricultural topic

Where to Submit

Please email your nominations to info@aglaw-assn.org with the name of the award in the subject line. The deadline is September 15.

Past Recipients 

2023 Opening the Range: Reforms to Allow Markets for Voluntary Conservation on Federal Grazing Lands, 2023 UTAH L. REV. 197 (2023).

Shawn Regan, Temple Stoellinger, & Jonathan Wood

 

2022 Turtles All the Way Down: A Clearer Understanding of the Scope of Waters of the United States Based on the U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, 46 WM. & MARY ENVʼT L. & POLʼY REV. 1 (2021).

Jesse J. Richardson Jr., Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, & Gatlin Squires

Combining the Academic with the Practical: A Meaningful Framework for More Effectively Resolving Distressed Agricultural Loans, 26 DRAKE J. AGRIC. L. 1 (2021).

Michael D. Fielding

 

2021 Agriculture & Data Privacy: I Want a HIPPA(Pottamus) For Christmas … Maybe, 8 TEX. A&M L. REV. 686-733 (2021).

Jennifer Zwagerman

Fee Simple Failures: Rural Landscapes and Race, 119 MICH. L. REV. 1697-1756 (2021).

Jessica Shoemaker

Brief for the Indiana Agricultural Law Foundation & Indiana Pork Producers Association as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents in Himsel v. Himsel, 122 N.E.3d 935 (Ind. Ct. App. 2019) (No. 18A-PL-645).

Todd J. Janzen, Brianna J. Schroeder, & Daniel P. McInerny

 

2020 Decoding Water Law: Ten Areas of Texas Water Law Every Ag Lawyer Should Know, 5 TEX. A&M J. PROP. L. 449 (2019).

Jason T. Hill & Victoria R. Messer

 

2019 Statutes of Limitation and Crop Insurance

Chad G. Marzen

 

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 & 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

2015

Agricultural Biotechnology—An Opportunity to Feed a World of Ten Billion, 118 PENN. ST. L. REV. 859 (2015).

Nina V. Fedoroff & Drew L. Kershen