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Agricultural Law Bibliography: 4th Quarter 2012

by Drew L. Kershen, Professor of Law, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Administrative Law

Ballard, Crop Insurance Arbitration: What Is Arbitration, When Is It Required, and How Does It Work, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 10-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Note, First Americans and the Federal Government: Tribal Consultation, Agriculture, and a New Government-to-Government Relationship at the Start of the Twenty-First Century, 17 Drake J. Agric. l. 473-509 (2012).

Rumley, Crop Insurance for Edamame, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 9-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Steinzor, The Age of Greed and the Sabotage of Regulation, 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 503-536 (2012).

Agribusiness Corporations

Note, Follow the Money: Insulating Agribusiness through Lobbying and Suppression of Individual Free Speech, 6 Pittsburgh J. Envtl. L. & Pub. Healtlh L. 213-237 (2012).

Animals — Animal Rights

Anderson, The Origins and Efficacy of Private Enforcement of Animal Cruelty Law in Britain, 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 263-310 (2012).

Cassuto & Saville, Hot, Crowded, and Legal: A Look at Industrial Agriculture in the United States and Brazil,  18 Animal L. 185-205 (2012).

Leahy, Large-Scale Farmed Animal Abuse and Neglect: Law and Its Enforcement, 4 J. Animal L. & Ethics 63-132 (2011).

Pearson, Horse Slaughter: A Conflict of Ethics, Economics & Welfare, 4 J. Animal L. & Ethics 205-241 (2011).

Student Article. Ag-gag: The Unconstitutionality of Laws Restricting Undercover Investigations on Farms, 42 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Anal. 10960-10977 (2010).

Wechsler, Blood on the Hands of the Federal Government: Affirmative Steps that Promote Animal Cruelty, 4 J. Animal L. & Ethics 183-204 (2011).

Biotechnology

Conko, Is There a Future for Generic Biotech Crops? Issue Analysis No. 7 pp. 22, Competitive Enterprise Institute  9-2012, http://www.cei.org

Hermitte et al., Legal Issues, an Overview on Co-Existence Policies: Technological Pluralism, Confidence Economy, Transnational Supply Chains in Y. Bertheau (ed.), Genetically Modified And Non-Genetically Modified Food Supply Chains:  Co-Existence And Traceability 415-431 (2013).

Lee-Muramoto, Reforming the “Uncoordinated” Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology, 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 311-367 (2012).

Noiville, The Judge’s Role Concerning Science in Precautionary Measures: A Shift from Guide to Arbitrator in Y. Bertheau (ed.), Genetically Modified And Non-Genetically Modified Food Supply Chains:  Co-Existence And Traceability 433-457 (2013).

Yu & Wang,  Agro-GMO Biosafety Legislation in China: Current Situation, Challenges, and Solutions, 13 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 865-883 (2012).

Energy Issues

Endres, Clearing the Air: The Meta-Standard Approach to Ensuring Biofuels Environmental and Social Sustainability, 28 Va. Envtl.  L. J. 73-120 (2010).

Ferrell & Rumley, Wind Energy Leasing Handbook – Workbook, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 11-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Environmental Issues

Gathii & Hirakawa, Curtailing Ecosystem Exportation: Ecosystem Services as a Basis to Reconsider Export-Driven Agriculture in Economies Highly Dependent on Agricultural Exports, 30 Va. Envtl. L. J. 1-27 (2012).

Note,  A Case for Cooperation between the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture in Order to Achieve Federal Environmental Quality Goals  (National Pork Producers’ Council v. EPA, 635 F.3d 738, 2011), 19 J. Envtl. Sustainability L. 123-150 (2012).

Note, Striking the Proper Balance between the Carrot and the Stick: Approaches to Animal Feeding Operation Regulation, 2012 U. Ill. L. Rev. 923-968

Farm Labor

          Aliens

Martin, Agriculture and Migration after Arizona, 16 ARE Update 6-8  2012, http://giannini.ucop.edu/media/are-update/articles/V16N1_2.pdf.

          General & Social Welfare

Simmons, A Brief Survey of Important Legal Issues for Agricultural Employers, 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 395-447 (2012).

Farm Policy and Legislative Analysis

          Domestic

Jones, Put a Cork in It: The Use of H.R. 1161 to End Direct Wine Shipping throughout the States Once and for All, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 113-143 (2012).

Kammer, Cornography: Perverse Incentives and the United States Corn Subsidy, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 1-63 (2012).

Krueger, The Farm Bill as a Resource for Strengthening Food Systems, 46 Clearinghouse Rev. 218-225 (2012).

Farmer-Processor Bargaining — Production Contracts

Rumley, Agricultural Contracting, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 9-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Food and Drug Law

Cain, Salads, Safety and Speech under a National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, 67 Food Drug L. J. 311-336 (2012).

California Environmental Law & Policy Center, California’s Proposition 37: A Legal & Policy Analysis 42 pp.  10-2012, http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/centers/enviromental/

Farnese, Canadian Food Law Update, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 171-180 (2012).

Handel, Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods: A Constitutional Analysis of California’s Proposition 37, Culinaria No. 1 pp. 26 (2012).

Keane, Can a Consumer’s Right to Know Survive the WTO?: The Case of Food Labeling, 16 Transnat. L. & Contemp.  Prob. 291-332 (2006).

Majster, European Food Law Update: A Special Look at the Focus on Nutrition and Consumer Information, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 181-189 (2012).

Remarks: 2011 The National Food Policy Conference, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 191-221 (2012).

Corbo, Reforming U.S. Food Safety Policy: A Consumer Advocacy Perspective, 193-197

Heshmat, Obstacles to Dieting Behavior, 199-201

Pingree, The Local Food Movement: From Maine to Washington, D.C., 203-212

Waxman, The Costs and Impacts of Rising Food Prices among Low-Income Households, 213-221

Rumley, Food Safety and Specialty Crops, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 9-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Rumley, Food Labeling for Specialty Crop Producers, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 9-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Rumley & Rumley, Non-GMO Labeling, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 9-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Seideman & Rainery, 3^rd Party Food Safety Audits, National Agricultural Law Publications 9-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Sexton, Does Local Production Come at the Expense of Food Safety?, 16 ARE Update 9-11  2012, http://giannini.ucop.edu/media/are-update/articles/V16N1_3.pdf

Student Article, Catastrophe Lurks in South America: Tainted Food and International Commerce in the Andean Community of Nations, 39 Syracuse J. Int’l. L. & Comm. 411-439 (2012).

Student Essay, “Natural” Modifications: the FDA’s Need to Promulgate an Official Definition of “Natural” that Includes Genetically Modified Organisms, 80 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1504-1526 (2012).

Tai, The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1069-1135  (2012).

Fruits & Vegetables — Perishable Agricultural Commodities

Pittman, Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Factsheet, National Agricultural Law Center Publications, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Hunger & Food Security Issues

Kang, Recognizing the Link Among Climate Change, Food, and Poverty, 46 Clearinghouse Rev. 289-293 (2012).

Lambert, Global Food Security: In Our National Interest, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 99-112 (2012).

Webb & Allen, Southern Progress: Antihunger and Food Justice Movements in Arkansas and Mississippi 46 Clearlinghouse Rev. 226-234 (2012).

International Trade

Kershen, California’s Proposition 37 and the WTO Agreements, 16 ARE Update 1-5  2012, http://giannini.ucop.edu/media/are-update/articles/V16N1_1.pdf

Kershen, Would State-Mandated Labels For Biotech Foods Violate World Trade Agreements?, Working Paper Series Number 181 pp. 26, Wash. Legal Found. (9-2012), http://www.wlf.org

Smyth, Kerr & Phillips, Recent Trends in the Scientific Basis of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Trade Rules and Their Potential Impact on Investment, 12 J. World Investment & Trade 1, 5-26 (2011).

Smyth, Phillips & Kerr, Global Governance Quandaries Regarding Transformative Technologies for Bioproducts, Crops, and Foods, 43 J. World Trade 1299-1323 (2009).

Leases, Landlord-Tenant

Cox, The Landowner’s Guide to Sustainable Farm Leasing pp.53  8-2010 (Leopold Center, Iowa State).

Note, Corn Flakes Aren’t just for Kellogg’s: A Look at Corn Stover and its Effect on Leasing in the Landlord-Tenant Farmer Relationship, 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 511-530 (2012).

Patents and Other Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture

Clarke, Smoke and Mirrors: Primarily Geographically Deceptively Misdescriptive Marks and the TTAB’s Erroneous Reliance on the Heightened Goods-Place Association, 22 Fed. Circuit B. J. 177-202 (2012).

Comment, Man vs. Nature: Should the Offspring of Transgenic Animals be Patentable Subject Matter?, 37 U. Dayton L. Rev. 257-278 (2012).

Finston, The Role of Intellectual Property in Development of Golden Rice, 1(2) J. Pub. Interest Intell. Prop. 1-7 2012, http://www.piipajournal.org/issue/archive

Gubarev, Misappropriation and Patenting of Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Genetic Resources, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 65-98 (2012).

Heald & Chapman, Veggie Tales: Pernicious Myths about Patents, Innovation, and Crop Diversity in the Twentieth Century, 2012 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1051-1102.

Marden & Godfrey, Intellectual Property and Sharing Regimes in Agricultural Genomics: Finding the Right Balance for Innovation, 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 369-393 (2012).

Matthews, Increasing Revenue in Developing Nations through Intellectual Property Rights: Why a Diversified Approach to Intellectual Property Protection with a Focus on Geographical Indications Is the Best Method,  7 Buffalo Intell. Prop. L. J. 201-223 (2010).

Pesticides, Herbicides, Insecticides, Fungicides, Fertilizers

Rumley, Approval of Pesticides, National Agricultural Law Publications, 9-2012 http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Public Lands

Note, This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: Allowing Third Party Standing to Address Environmental Harms on the Federal Public Lands, 39 Ecol. L. Q. 507-533 (2012).

Student Article, Are Federal Livestock Grazing Permittees an Endangered Species? The Future of Public Lands Grazing in Montana under the Endangered Species Act, 33 Pub. Land & Res. L. Rev. 143-174 (2012).

Rural Development

Book Review, Cows v Capitalists: Visions of a Post-Carbon Economy – Simon Fairlie, Meat: A Benign Extravagance, 8 J. Food L. & Pol’y 145-169 (2012).

Comment, Pressing Washington’s Wine Industry into the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking What It Means to be a Winery, 87 Wash. L. Rev. 851-882 (2012).

Davidson, My Aging Minority Rural Grandparents: Disparities in the Health and Health Care of the Rural Elderly Minority Population and the Need for Culturally Competent Health Care Providers, 21 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y  L. 57-78 (2012).

Tarr, Cunningham & Rumley, Mississippi Direct Farm Business Guide, National Agricultural Law Center Publications 11-2012, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org

Sustainable & Organic Farming

Galey & Endres, Locating the Boundaries of Sustainable Agriculture, 17 NEXUS 3-34 (2012).

Galluzzi et al., Keeping Germplasm Flowing, 1(2) J. Pub. Interest Intell. Prop. 1-13  2012, http://www.piipajournal.org/issue/archive

Taxation

Note, Iowa’s Property Tax System and the Agricultural Tie: Effect on Local Government Revenue Generation, 17 Drake J. Agric. L. 449-472 (2012).

Torts and Insurance

Koch, Liability and Redress Options for Damage Caused by GMOs in Y. Bertheau (ed.), Genetically Modified And Non-Genetically Modified Food Supply Chains:  Co-Existence And Traceability 405-413 (2013).

Trade Regulation/Antitrust

Lim, Rebooting the Bean, 3 ABA Antitrust Section Agriculture Food Committee Newsletter 2-13 (Fall 2012).

Uniform Commercial Code

          Article Seven (Documents of Title)

Schutz, Documents of Title, 67 Bus. L. 1293-1298 (2012).