CURRICULUM
Upon first enrollment in the graduate program, each candidate is responsible for developing a proposed course of study in conference with the Director of the Graduate Agricultural Law Program. Prior to each subsequent registration, the Director must approve the course program selected.
As a part of the comprehensive program of study, candidates for the Master of Laws degree will be required to meet requirements outlined above regarding the Agricultural Law Colloquium and Research Seminar I and II. (These are described under "Courses.") In addition, the following course in the Department of Agricultural Economics is required:
AGEC 5153 Economics of Agricultural Policy - Application of welfare criteria and economic analyses to problems and policies affecting resource adjustment in agriculture. Existing programs and alternative proposals are evaluated for both short and long term viewpoints, under the criterion of resource use and income distribution within agriculture and between agriculture and the rest of the economy.
At least twelve semester hours must be selected from courses designed for and approved by the faculty as a part of the agricultural law program. Such courses include:
Agriculture and the Environment
Agricultural Cooperatives
Agricultural Finance and Credit
Agricultural Labor Law
Agricultural Regulation
Agricultural Tax Planning
Commodities Trading and Regulation
Food and Drug Law
Forestry Law and Policy
Independent Research in Agriculture Law
International Agricultural Transactions
Public Lands Law
Water Law
Of the topics to be addressed in the LL.M. program some may be taught as traditional courses, some as seminars, and some as tutorials. The specific approach and number of hours of credit for each course may vary from year to year and between instructors, subject to approval of the Graduate Legal Studies Committee and, when appropriate, the Law Curriculum Committee.
Upon approval of the student's advisor and the Director of the Agricultural Law Program, additional course work to complete degree requirements may be selected from electives in the law school curriculum (if not previously taken as part of the J.D. program). Credit may not be granted for courses taken at other law schools.
Upon approval of the student's advisor and the Director of the Agricultural Law Program, up to six semester hours of electives related to the field of agricultural law may be selected from graduate level courses (courses numbered 5000 or above, and in some cases those numbered 4000 or above) in other departments within the University. The final digit of the four digit course number indicates the number of semester credits to be earned.