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Description
Each year, our organization presents AALA Scholarship Awards, which are intended to recognize and encourage scholarly work.
Criteria
In selecting student winners, the AALA awards committee considers 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. A student is defined as someone who is enrolled part-time or full-time in a law school or graduate program that relates to agricultural law. Membership in AALA is not required.
Any scholarly work (paper, article, comment, papers written for courses, etc.) related to agriculture are eligible for consideration.
Where to Submit
Please use this Nomination Form and email it along with any relevant information to info@aglaw-assn.org with the name of the award in the subject line. The deadline is September 16.
Awards winners will be announced and presented an award on November 7 at the 2025 Annual Education Symposium in Scottsdale, AZ and subsequently announced via an AALA publication and press release.
Required Submission Information:
- Name, phone number and email address of the author
- Attachment (PDF or Word) or link to submission
- There is no length requirement or limitation
Past Recipients:
| 2025
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Beyond the Bacon: Proposition 12’s Impact on the United States Pork Industry (forthcoming 2026).
Brooke De Noble, Drake University Law School
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| 2024
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Climate Change & Farm Bill Reauthorization: An Evaluation of the 118th Congress’ Challenged Capacity to Address Climate Change in the 2023 Farm Bill, 28 DRAKE J. AGRIC. LAW (2023).
Chance Mitchell, University of New Mexico School of Law
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| 2023
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Counting the Cost of California’s Proposition 12 Post-Ross, 69 S.D. L. REV. (forthcoming 2024).
Taylor Bushelle, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law
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| 2022
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Saving the Little Guy: Estate and Inheritance Taxation on Generational Farmers and Ranchers, 13 ESTATE PLANNING JOURNAL 1 (2021).
Sarah Patterson, Texas Tech University School of Law
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| 2021
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The Growing Monopoly in the Corn Seed Industry: Is It Time for the Government to Interfere?
Bethany Sumpter, Texas A&M University School of Law
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| 2019
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Regulating What Can’t Be Measured: Reviewing the Current State of Animal Agricultural’s Air Emissions Regulation Post-Waterkeeper Alliance v. EPA
Kyle K. Weldon, Texas A&M University School of Law
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| 2018
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GMOs, Genetically Modified Organisms or Genuinely Mixed Opinions? A Reasonable Consumer’s Understanding of the Terms “GMO” and “Non-GMO,” and the Struggle to Set a Standard, 48 SETON HALL L. REV. 221 (2017).
Nicholas J. Kromka, Seton Hall University School of Law
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| 2017
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The Poultry Products Inspection Act and California’s Foie Gras Ban: An Analysis of the Canards Decision and Its Implications for California’s Animal Agriculture Industry, 104 CALIF. L. REV. 1009 (2016).
Kathryn Campo-Bowen, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
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| 2016
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From Precision Agriculture to Market Manipulation: A New Frontier in the Legal Community, 17 MINNESOTA JOURNAL of LAW SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 489 (2016).
Neal Rasmussen, University of Minnesota Law School
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| 2015
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Unapproved Genetically Modified Corn: It’s What’s For Dinner, 100 IOWA L. REV. 825 (2015).
Kyndra Lundquist, The University of Iowa College of Law
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| 2015 |
Agriculture Precision Farming: Who Owns the Property of Information? Is it the Farmer, the Company who Helps Consult the Farmer on How to Use the Information Best, or the Mechanical Company who Built The Technology Itself?, 19 DRAKE J. AGRIC. L. 239 (2014).
Jacob Strobel, Drake University Law School
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