Drew Kershen: Research/Scholarship
Agricultural Biotechnology Law and Policy
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Book Chapters
Henry Miller & Gregory Conko, FRANKENFOOD MYTH: HOW PROTEST AND POLITICS THREATEN THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION (Praeger Pub. 2004) (Chapter 6)
Articles
Drew L. Kershen (2009) “Legal Liability and Agricultural Biotechnology: Ten Questions,” http://agribiotech.info/details/KershenFinal%2003%20layout.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Drew L. Kershen (2007) “Sustainable Intensive Agriculture: High Technology and Environmental Benefits,” 16 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 424, http://jay.law.ou.edu/faculty/kershen/articles/sustainable.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Stuart J. Smyth and Drew L. Kershen (2006) “Agricultural Biotechnology: Legal Liability Regimes from Comparative and International Perspectives,” GLOBAL JURIST ADVANCES, Vol. 6, No. 2, Article 3 http://www.bepress.com/gj/advances/vol6/iss2/art3/ (opens in a new window)
Kershen, Health and Food Safety: The Benefits of Bt-Corn, 61 FOOD & DRUG LAW JOURNAL 197-235 (2006) with permission from FDLI http://jay.law.ou.edu/faculty/kershen/articles/healthandfoodsafety.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Drew Kershen & Alan McHughen, Adventitious Presence: Inadvertent Commingling and Coexistence Among Farming Methods, CAST Commentary, QTA 2005-1 (July 2005) http://www.cast-science.org/cast/src/cast_top.htm (opens in a new window)
Drew Kershen & Alan McHughen, Presencia adventicia: mezcla inadvertida y coexistencia entre métodos de cultivo, Comentario CAST, QTA 2005-1 SPA (Julio 2005) http://www.cast-science.org/cast/src/cast_top.htm (opens in a new window)
Kershen, Proposed Liability Legislation for Transgenic Crops, 10 (#2) ABA AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER 7-11 (Feb 2006) http://www.abanet.org/environ/committees/agricult/newsletter/ (opens in a new window)
Of Straying Crops and Patent Rights, 43 WASHBURN L. J. 575-610 (2004)
http://washburnlaw.edu/wlj/43-3/articles/kershen-drew.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Legal Liability Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology, CROP SCIENCE 44:456-463 (2004)
http://crop.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/44/2/456 (opens in a new window)
Symposium: Liability for Refusing to Use Agricultural Biotechnology, 10 RICHMOND J. LAW & TECH. 20 (2003) at http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v10i2/article21.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Innovations in Biotechnology - Public Perceptions and Cultural Attitudes. An American's Viewpoint", Global Jurist Topics: Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 1 (2003). http://www.bepress.com/gj/topics/vol3/iss1/art1 (opens in a new window)
Legal Liability Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology, National Ag Law Center Publications (Nov. 2002) available at http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/articles/kershen_biotech.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window), reprinted in 10 ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY 203-216 (Dec. 2002)
Agricultural Biotechnology: Environmental Benefits for Identifiable Environmental Problems, 32 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 11312-11316 (Nov. 2002)
The Risks of Going Non-GMO, 53 OKLAHOMA L. REV. 631-652 (2000) http://www.biotech-info.net/nongmo.html (opens in a new window)
Redick, Kershen, & Crispin, Assessing the Impact of the Biosafety Protocol Upon American Growers, Vol. 4, # 3, Newsletter of the Special Committee on Agricultural Management pp. 5-8 (2000) http://www.abanet.org/environ/committees/agricult/newsletter/june00/red.html (opens in a new window)
Kershen, D. (2000) The Concept of Natural: Implications for Biotechnology Regulation. AgBioForum, 3(1), 321-326 (Winter 2000), http://www.agbioforum.missouri.edu/v3n1/v3n1a11-kershen.htm (opens in a new window)
The Biosafety Protocol and the Cartagena Negotiations, 16 AGRICULTURAL L. UPDATE 4-7 (May 1999). Reprinted in slightly shorter version in ABA Sp. Comm. on Ag. Mngmt. Newsletter (May 1999) and ABA Inter. Envir. L. Comm Newsletter (Sept. 1999) http://www.aglaw-assn.org/members/members2/update/1999/05-99.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Kershen & McHughen, Adventitious Presence, CAST COMMENTARY QTA 2005-1 (July 2005) [Spanish translation Feb 2006] http://www.cast-science.org/cast/news/QTA2005-1.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Kershen, D. (1999). Biotechnology: An essay on the academy, cultural attitudes and public policy. AgBioForum, 2(2), 137-146 (Spring 1999), http://www.agbioforum.org/v2n2/v2n2a12-kershen.htm (opens in a new window)
Essays
Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers: Commentary on the Center for Food Safety Report, ISB NEWS REPORT (April 2005) http://nbiap.biochem.vt.edu/news/2005/Apr05.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
B. Chassy & D. Kershen, Bt corn reduces serious birth defects, WESTERN FARM PRESS (28 Oct. 2004) http://www.westernfarmpress.com/news/10-27-04-Bt-corn-birth-defects/ (opens in a new window)
with Andrew Apel and others, To Die or Not to Die This is the Problem (Oct. 2002) – submitted to United States Embassy to the Holy See in response to the refusal of food aid by Zambia http://www.agbioworld.org/pdf/To_Die_or_not_to_Die.pdf (pdf, opens in a new window)
Comments
B. Chassy & D. Kershen, Banning biotech may deny safer foods to developing countries, SAN LUIS OBISPO TRIBUNE Op-Ed, Oct. 14, 2004 (Op-ed version of the long article published in the WESTERN FARM PRESS) http://monsanto.co.uk/news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=8271 (opens in a new window)
D. Kershen & P. Morandini, Food, Zambia, and Moral Courage, TECHCENTRAL STATION Op-Ed, February 2003 http://www.techcentralstation.com/020703M.html (opens in a new window)
Legal Cover for Governmental Policies of Starvation, TECHCENTRAL STATION Op-Ed, December 2002 http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=122002M (opens in a new window)