Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural Law

Professor of Law

B.A., J.D., LL.M.

Email: sschneid@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-4334
 

Professor Susan Schneider joined the law faculty in 1998 and teaches courses in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural Law. She has served as the program director since 2000. Her primary teaching and research interests are in agricultural finance, food law and policy, bankruptcy, agricultural labor law, and agricultural policy.

She graduated with a B.A. in 1982 from the College of St. Catherine (Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu). Professor Schneider earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota School of Law in 1985 and her LL.M. in agricultural law in 1990 from the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Professor Schneider's private practice experience includes agricultural law work with firms in Arkansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Washington, D.C. She served as a staff attorney at Farmer's Legal Action Group Inc. and at the National Center for Agricultural Law Research & Information. She has taught agricultural law and related subjects at William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota and at the Drake University Summer Agricultural Law Institute in Iowa.

Professor Schneider has published numerous articles on agricultural law subjects, including farm finance, agricultural bankruptcy, ground-water contamination, farm program payments, and women in agriculture. In addition to her traditional publications, she is a contributor to the agricultural law blog on the Jurisdynamics Network, available at aglaw.blogspot.com. Professor Schneider is an active member of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA) and is a past president and former AALA board member. She is also a frequent speaker at agricultural law conferences.

Publications

"Who Gets the Check: Determining When Federal Farm Program Payments Are Property of the Bankruptcy Estate?" 84 Neb. L. Rev 469 (2005)

"Bankruptcy Reform and Family Farmers: Correcting the Disposable Income Problem," 38 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 309 (2006)

Professor Schneider was a contributing author to Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice, "Update on Chapter 12 Under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act," National Consumer Law Center (2005)

"Bankruptcy Reform: Changes to Chapter 12 - Family Farmer Reorganization," Farmers' Legal Action Report, Vol. 20, Issue 2 at 1 (2005)

Agricultural Law Blog