Professor Susan Schneider has published a book titled Food, Farming, and Sustainability: Readings in Agricultural Law. The book provides an overview of agriculture and agriculture law and explores a range of topics including economic support to agriculture, agriculture and environmental law, financing the farming operation, discrimination in agriculture, agricultural labor law, regulation of livestock sales, animal welfare, biotechnology, and food and agriculture. Schneider serves as the Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
After growing up on a third generation family farm in Minnesota, Schneider has devoted her entire legal career to agricultural law and food law, according to Amazon.com's author profile. Her private practice experience includes work on behalf of farmers with firms in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Washington, D.C. She served as a staff attorney at Farmer's Legal Action Group Inc. (FLAG), and now serves on the FLAG Board of Directors. In addition to teaching at the University of Arkansas School of Law, she has taught agricultural law and related subjects at William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota and at the Drake University Summer Agricultural Law Institute in Iowa.
Professor Schneider attended college in St. Paul at the College of St. Catherine and obtained her J.D. from the Minnesota School of Law. She earned her LL.M. in Agricultural Law from the program she now directs at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
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Posted: 2/13/11
