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Legal, Policy, And Environmental Scholars Discuss Global Food Systems At Indiana Law Symposium, James Owsley Boyd Jan 2024

Legal, Policy, And Environmental Scholars Discuss Global Food Systems At Indiana Law Symposium, James Owsley Boyd

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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law and its Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies are hosting scholars from around the country Friday and Saturday (Jan. 19-20) for an interdisciplinary discussion on one of the world’s most prevalent problems—food insecurity.

Data from the World Bank estimate more than 780 million people around the world suffered from chronic hunger in 2022. As climate change affects agricultural production and water accessibility, the problem could worsen in coming years.

“A Fragile Framework: How Global Food Systems Intersect with the International Legal Order, the Environment, and the World’s Populations” will bring together legal, policy, …


U.S. Plant Variety Protection: Sound And Fury...?, Mark D. Janis, Jay P. Kesan Jan 2002

U.S. Plant Variety Protection: Sound And Fury...?, Mark D. Janis, Jay P. Kesan

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This Article offers a critical reassessment of U.S. approaches to intellectual property protection for plant innovation. Three developments make this reassessment timely. First, the Supreme Court has finally confirmed that utility patent claims to plants and seeds satisfy the 35 U.S.C. Section 101 subject matter eligibility requirement. Plant innovation in the United States is now subject to utility patent protection, as well as concurrent protection under the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA). However, little work has been done to explain the role of PVPA protection in a system of concurrent protection, or to develop a coherent policy vision within which …


The Hemp Controversy: Can Industrial Hemp Save Kentucky?, Susan David Demaine Jan 1998

The Hemp Controversy: Can Industrial Hemp Save Kentucky?, Susan David Demaine

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In the wake of litigation over the responsibility of tobacco companies for harm caused by cigarettes and in the face of increased public hostility toward smoking, Kentucky's tobacco farmers are apprehensive about the future. While not all growers depend entirely on tobacco for their income, the potential shrinking of the tobacco market will have serious ramifications throughout the state. Some farmers are turning to organic vegetable farming, or to com and soybeans as alternative crops, but the potential of industrial hemp as an option remains uncertain. Touted by many as the answer to the tobacco farmer's quandary, industrial hemp remains …


Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause -- Agricultural Adjustment Act Of 1938, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1940

Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause -- Agricultural Adjustment Act Of 1938, Hugh Evander Willis

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After The Nebbia Case: The Administration Of Price Regulation, Frank Edward Horack Jr., Julius Cohen Jan 1934

After The Nebbia Case: The Administration Of Price Regulation, Frank Edward Horack Jr., Julius Cohen

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