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Innovative law school clinics continue to play a significant role in assisting local food initiatives. I was happy to learn that these agricultural and food law clinical opportunities played a major role at the recent Transactional Clinicians' Conference in Los Angeles. This annual conference is for directors of transactional and community development clinics, and this year, it featured a plenary presentation about clinic representation of agricultural and food system clients. Beth Kregor , Director of The Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago and Jay Mitchell , Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Organizations and Transactions Clinic at Stanford Law School led the session. Beth described her clinic's exciting work with food entrepreneurs and urban farmers on contract, regulatory and advocacy projects in Chicago. Jay provided an overview about client and project opportunities in the sector, drawing on his ar

The first articles published by the new online Agriculture & Food Security Journal were announced this week. I am pleased to assist the Journal as a member of a diverse editorial board. This is a new venture for me, and it is one that I am proud to support. It is not only truly international, but it is truly interdisciplinary. I am pleased to represent law along side our well-recognized colleagues in other disciplines. The Editors-in-Chief of the new Journal are distinguished leaders in agriculture.  Malcolm Elliott is the Founding Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Global Food Security in the United Kingdom; Molly Jahn is a Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and Department of Agronomy, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States; and Magdy Madkour is a Professor of Biotechnology in the Arid Lands Agricultural Research Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, in Cairo, Egypt. He