The Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center

The Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center is a collaboration between Penn State Law and the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. Under the direction of Ross Pifer, the center is funded in part by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and designed to provide the highest-quality educational programs, information and materials to those involved or interested in agricultural law and policy.
 

Featured Resources

• Marcellus Shale Resource Area 
• Case Law from Marcellus States 2010-2011 (November 17, 2011)
• What a Short, Strange Trip It’s Been: Moving Forward after Five Years of Marcellus Shale Development
• The Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Rush: The Impact of Drilling on Surface Owner Rights
• Drake Meets Marcellus: A Review of Pennsylvania Case Law upon the Sesquicentennial of the Oil and Gas Industry  
• 2011 ACRE Report from Attorney General (November 23, 2011) 
• The Agriculture, Communities and Rural Environment Act: Protecting Pennsylvania's Agricultural Operations from Unlawful Municipal Regulation
• Understanding Negligence Liability Against Rural Landowners
• Chesapeake Bay Resource Area
• The Agricultural Law Brief
   

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The Center does not provide legal advice, nor is its work intended to be a substitute for such advice and counsel.