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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.
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 |
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 |
| 2023 |
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 |
| 2022 |
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 |
| 2021 |
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 |
| 2019 |
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 |
| 2018 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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