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Bowman v. Monsanto: Implications in Health and Biotechnology

By 3L student Ryan Beckstrom, Fellow with the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences
The United States Supreme Court is currently considering the case of agribusiness giant Monsanto against a farmer who planted his crops using second-generation versions of Monsanto’s patented “Roundup Ready” soy seeds. Generally, Monsanto farmers are forbidden by contract from saving their “Roundup Ready” seeds for replanting, but in this case Bowman purchased second-generation seeds from a local grain elevator. The catch is that most of the seeds in the region were “Roundup Ready,” so the bulk of what Bowman purchased from the grain elevator was second-generation Monsanto crop. ... Read More »

2L Hansen wins prestigious Carnegie Fellowship

Deen Chatterjee, Senior Fellow of Law at S.J. Quinney College of Law and a Fellow of Carnegie Council, has selected second-year law student Gage Hansen for Carnegie Council's prestigious fellowship:  Ethics Fellows for the Future. The purpose of the program is to build the next generation of thinking on ethical issues in international affairs and to facilitate cooperation and dialogue between students from different ... Read More »

Dedicated Westlaw printers going away

Law Library

Westlaw will be removing the two dedicated Westlaw printers (in Gibson and the computer lab) by June 30.  If you need to print something while at the law school you can print to the attached printers on the student network.  You can also save and access legal materials on WestlawNext using their folder feature.  LexisAdvance also has a folder feature and the ... Read More »