Professor Anthony Schutz joined our Food, Law, & COVID class on October 16 to discuss the livestock production and meat processing industries in the context of problems that occurred when COVID outbreak slowed meat and poultry processing.
While our prior guest, Leah Douglas focused on the tragic toll that COVID has taken on the workers in these plants, Professor Schutz took a step back in the supply chain to examine the livestock industry.
He discussed the dramatic changes that have occurred in this industry in the recent decades and the shift from diversified individual producers to large scale integrated production.
Under this new system, farmers raise vast numbers of animals under contract with a processor in a system designed to maximize the production of a steady supply of animals.
When that system slowed, farmers were left with animals that the processors no longer wanted.
Decisions regarding the killing of these animals and then disposing of them was a painful yet critical discussion.
Professor Schutz is the Associate Dean for Faculty and an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law .
He is a nationally recognized agricultural law professor and scholar who is a frequent speaker at agricultural law conferences.
His insightful comments are followed by many on Twitter, anthony_schulz .
We thank Professor Schutz for his excellent presentation and thoughtful readings.
The Selected Issues in Agricultural & Food Law: LL.M.
Alumni Expertise class heard from Christina Rice last week about the important topic of heir property.
We are grateful to Christina for sharing her expertise with the class Christina is a Staff Attorney with the Land Loss Prevention Project, a non-profit advocacy and legal services organization in Durham North Carolina.
Christina provides legal assistance to financially distressed and limited resource farmers, homeowners, and landowners throughout North Carolina.
Her main areas of concentration are estate planning, foreclosure prevention, bankruptcy, and business entity formation.
Prior to joining the Land Loss Prevention Project, Christina was a clinical fellow at the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC).
We are delighted to announce that Professor Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile has been appointed as a Scholar-in-Residence at New York University Law School’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
This appointment will allow her to further her research on the implications of emerging technologies on agriculture and other industries, and their impact on human rights, global governance, climate change, and sustainable development.
The Selected Issues: LL.M.
Alumni Expertise class heard from Melinda Meador last week about what it is like to work for the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.
Melinda is the Senior Director of Africa Middle East Operations for the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, stationed in Washington, D.C.
Her prior appointments include serving as Agricultural Counselor in the U.S.
Richard Flournoy, the Deputy Administrator for Product Management at the USDA Risk Management Agency, joined our Selected Issues: LL.M.
Alumni Expertise course last week.
Thank you, Richard, for speaking with the class about your career path, crop insurance, and jobs at USDA.
At USDA, Richard oversees the development and implementation of federal crop insurance policies.
He also served as Acting Administrator of the Risk Management Agency during most of 2021.
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette visited Professor Kelley’s Rule of Law class, listening to the heartbreaking stories from his students in Ukraine.
This special course is offered to students at the University of Arkansas each year, with Ukrainian students participating to offer their perspectives.
This year, the Russian invasion offers a tragic illustration of the violation of rule of law.
Here’s a link to the article with more information on the class and these brave Ukrainian students.
Lauren Bernadett joined our Selected Issues: LL.M.
Alumni Expertise course last week and covered the important topic of water law.
Lauren is a natural resources lawyer with California law firm of Harrison Temblador Hungerford & Guernsey.
Prior to joining the firm, Lauren represented private and public agency clients as outside general counsel and special counsel on water rights.
She represented clients before the State Water Resources Control Board and in negotiations with the U.S.
Check out our Spring 2022 LL.M.
Program newsletter It includes information about our courses, our professors, and our alumni.
Good things going on at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
We are sorry to report the passing of one of our LL.M.
alumni, George Tkach of Saskatchewan.
George was 93.
We remember him as a delightful, inquisitive, and kind man who attended the LL.M.
Program at an age when most attorneys would be planning for retirement.
He enjoyed learning, and we enjoyed the opportunity to get to know him and to appreciate his love of life and great wit.
George was born in Ukraine and immigrated with is family to Canada.
Mark Opanasuil came to the LL.M.
Program from Ukraine as a Fulbright Scholar.
He returned to Ukraine and has had a remarkable career in law, business, and IT.
With his permission, I share his compelling report on the invasion: Never thought I’d have to post something like this, but here we are.
Heres a short summary as of 25.02.2021: On the 24th of February, Russians openly attacked Ukraine from Belarus and Russian territory.