Tech Law Agricultural Law Association

Attention law students 📢

The American Agricultural Law Association has two competitions specifically for students!

The Quiz Bowl Contest: Contestants will compete in teams of three in timed rounds through a quiz show format in a single-elimination tournament. Prizes will be awarded to first-place and honorable-mention teams. This event will take place at the annual AALA symposium.

Registration deadline for teams or individuals: 5:00 p.m. CDT on October 30, 2023. To register, email Shannon L. Ferrell ([email protected]) with a message indicating your intention to compete.

The Paper-Writing Contest: The goal of the Modern Agricultural Legal Issues Essay Contest is to encourage law students to become involved in AALA and to encourage scholarship and learning in the diverse field of agricultural law. Awards will be given to top winners.

The entry deadline is Friday, October 13, 2023.

For more details on both competitions, please go to the following link: https://www.aglaw-assn.org/membership/students/

Come out tonight to watch Ag Law officer Macy Massey compete in the final round of advanced mock trial!

Join us THIS SATURDAY at the Range !!!

Awards:
1st Place - 2 $100 Visa gift cards
2nd Place - 2 $50 Red Raider Outfitter gift cards
3rd Place - 2 $25 Whataburger gift cards

We cannot wait to see you there!!!!

Along with her team, our very own President, Maggie Pipkin, finished as a semifinalist last week at the inaugural Best in Texas Voir Dire Competition in San Antonio!

Congrats, Maggie!

We are proud and excited to announce that our former president, Sarah Patterson, took part in this vital handbook for landowners all across Texas!

Her research and assistance played a key role in the development of this second edition of Five Strands: A Landowner's Guide to Fence Law in Texas. If you're a rural landowner in Texas, take a look at this handbook for guidance on your fence law issues.

The Tech Law Agricultural Law Association will continue to play a role in Texas agricultural law in the years to come!

Second Edition - Five Strands: A Landowner's Guide to Fence Law in Texas - Texas Agriculture Law Back in 2017, we published Five Strands: A Landowner’s Guide to Fence Law in Texas. This handbook was the first resource of its kind to gather together information about Texas fence law in one easy-to-read, landowner-friendly publication. Thanks to you all, it was extremely popular. Now, five year...

This past weekend, your Texas Tech Agricultural Law Association made a trip out to the National Ranching Heritage Center to help out with their annual Ranch Day.

ALA helped a ton of kiddos design their own cattle brands and even let them brand a cow while the iron was still hot. Who knew that pipe cleaners and some paint would be such a great time!

It's always an honor to make it out to the National Ranch Heritage Center and help them showcase the history and culture of American agriculture. Thank you for having us!

Ag Law and ELIG are cohosting a speaker tomorrow (3/28) in room 109 from 12-1 🎊 Zach Brady is a well-known attorney in the Lubbock area and is a great resource to provide information on eminent domain as well as the intersection between energy and ag law.

We will also be providing lunch, so we hope you will all join us for this fantastic speaker event! 🙌🏻

Our 1L Representative is Cahil Murchison, a 1L planning to practice energy and agricultural law after graduation.

Cahil is from Lockhart, Texas, which is just south of Austin. His family has been involved in Texas agriculture in many ways. They've been ranching in Texas since the 1830s, and his father is a Special Ranger for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers. Growing up, he showed goats, sheep, and swine, played many sports, and was a national champion 4-H livestock judge in 2017.

Cahil graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Leadership and Development from Texas A&M, along with a minor in History. He loves spending time with his wife and family (which include his pets), traveling, reading, writing, barbequing, and watching sports.

While at Texas Tech Law, Cahil has competed in the 1L Negotiations Competition, is a member of the Federalist Society, and is looking forward to the many opportunities that will present themselves as law school continues.

Cahil hopes to find a career in agricultural law/policy preferably in Lubbock or the Austin area but is open to whatever opportunity presents itself.

Thank you to Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Amber Miller, Marlise Boyles, and Maria Oviedo for joining Ag Law, OWLS, and the Gender Equity Committee on International Women’s Day!

We are so appreciative of our four fantastic panelists and the insight they provided to Tech Law students regarding their experience as a woman in the legal field.

This Tuesday is International Women’s Day 🎊

Ag Law, OWLS, and the Gender Equity Committee are cohosting a speaker panel and encourage all of you to attend.

This is a great opportunity to hear from four talented and distinguished panelists. Lunch is provided 🙌🏻 We hope to see you all there!