The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review, founded in 1990, is published by the students of San Joaquin College of Law, which is located in California's Central Valley, one of the richest agricultural regions in the world. The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review presents student and scholar works on legal issues affecting our nation's most vital industry - agriculture. The topics discussed in each volume are always of current interest to those in agriculture, government, business and law. Each year, the student editorial board members of the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review gather, edit and publish articles, written by legal scholars and practitioners, and comments and case notes, written by students of San Joaquin College of Law. The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review provides an objective, national forum for analyzing issues affecting agriculture. For more information about the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review, please visit: www.sjcl.edu/sjalr

The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review, founded in 1990, is published by the students of San Joaquin College of Law, which is located in California's Central Valley, one of the richest agricultural regions in the world. The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review presents student and scholar works on legal issues affecting our nation's most vital industry - agriculture. The topics discussed in each volume are always of current interest to those in agriculture, government, business and law. Each year, the student editorial board members of the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review gather, edit and publish articles, written by legal scholars and practitioners, and comments and case notes, written by students of San Joaquin College of Law. The San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review provides an objective, national forum for analyzing issues affecting agriculture. For more information about the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review, please visit: www.sjcl.edu/sjalr

This book presents a developed theory of how national lawyers can approach, understand, and make use of foreign law. Its theme is pursued through a set of detailed essays which look at the courts as well as business practice and, with the help of statistics, demonstrate what type of academic work has any impact on the 'real' world. Engaging with Foreign Law thus aims to carve out a new niche for comparative law in this era of globalisation, and may also be the only book which deals in some depth with both private and public law in countries such as England, Germany, France, South Africa, and the United States.

This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation. The book is organized into three sections. Section one introduces the main themes of the book, explores the pre-Columbian period and early European settlement, and traces the first 150 years of U.S. agricultural policy starting with the post revolution period and ending with the “golden age” of agriculture in the early 20th century. Section two outlines that grand bargain of the 1930s that initiated the modern era of government intervention into agricultural markets and traces this policy evolution to the early days of the 21st century. The third section provides an in-depth examination of six policy issues that dominate current policy discussions and will impact policy decisions for the next generation: trade, environment/conservation, commodity checkoff programs, crop insurance, biofuels, and domestic nutrition programs.