Harrison M. Pittman
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Director of the National Agricultural Law Center

Research Assistant Professor of Law

B.S., J.D., LL.M.

Email: hmpittm@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-7640

Harrison PittmanProfessor Harrison Pittman supervises graduate assistants and students who are enrolled in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural Law. He also edits and helps manage all content published on the National Agricultural Law Center's web site. He earned his LL.M. in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas School of Law and his J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.

Professor Pittman is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association and is chair of the Agricultural Law Section of the Arkansas Bar Association. He is also a member of the American Agricultural Law Association and contributes frequently to the association's monthly newsletter, The AgLaw Update.

Professor Pittman has taught as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, as part of the Ben J. Altheimer Distinguished Professorship for Agricultural Law. He served as co-director of the National Agricultural Law Center in 2006 before being appointed as the center's director in 2007.

He has presented on several topics, including conservation programs, legal liability issues in agritourism operations, and the future of farm programs. Professor Pittman has authored articles on various subjects, including the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, the constitutionality of corporate farming laws, pesticide regulation and litigation, agricultural bankruptcy issues, and the National Organic Program. In addition, he has written annotations for American Law Reports, including an annotation on corporate farming laws and another on state right-to-farm laws. Professor Pittman has also written for West's Federal Administrative Law Reporter, updating annually several agricultural law chapters.

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