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

2024	Paved With Good Intentions: Unintended Impacts of Farm Bill Payment Limitations on Farm Risk Management and Farm Transitions, 28 DRAKE J. AGRIC. LAW (2023). Shannon L. Ferrell, Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Bart Fischer & Brad Karmen BETWEEN SOIL AND SOCIETY: LEGISLATIVE HISTORY AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FARM BILL CONSERVATION POLICY (2024). Jonathan Coppess Amicus Briefs: • CACTUS WATER SERVICES, LLC, v. COG OPERATING, LLC. Texas Supreme Court • TOM S. BLOXOM AS TRUSTEE OF TOM S. BLOXOM 2012 CHILDS TRUST 2 V. MUTT LAND HOLDINGS, LP., Seventh Court of Appeals-Amarillo Courtney Cox Smith
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