South Dakota Law Review Symposium Welcomed Cybersecurity, Technology and Agricultural Law Experts
The first presentation at the symposium was from Honorable Justice John Browning, partner at Spence Fane, chair of the Institute for Law & Technology at the Center for American and International Law and distinguished jurist in residence at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama. His presentation was titled “Something Old, Something New: Devising Legal Solutions for Combating Cybersecurity Risks in the Agribusiness Sector.”
The symposium featured an antitrust panel discussion moderated by Marcia Brown, food and agriculture reporter at POLITICO. Brown was joined Diana Moss, Ph.D., president of the American Antitrust Institute; Ted Downey, executive editor of the Capital Forum; Dylan Kirchmeier, South Dakota state’s attorney for Roberts County; and Spencer Waller, J.D., John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law, director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The panelists discussed the contributions in antitrust regulation and scholarship, addressing various pressing issues facing the legal system and society.
Waller also gave a presentation on “Bespoke Antitrust.” At Loyola University Chicago School of Law, he teaches antitrust, intellectual property, civil procedure and international litigation courses.
Over lunch, the keynote speaker, Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., discussed RNA viruses and biosecurity and the importance of having safe vaccine candidates and safe broad-spectrum antivirals ready for rapid clinical translation. Garcia-Blanco is s the F. Palmer Weber Medical Research Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology at the University of Virginia. He is an expert in RNA biology and RNA virology.
Following lunch, an agricultural panel was moderated by Andrew Green, senior advisor for Fair and Competitive Markets at the USDA. Green was joined by Jeffrey J. Roby, director, enterprise privacy for Best Buy Co, Inc. in Richfield, Minnesota; Jennifer Zwagerman, director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University Law School; Mike Traxinger, senior vice president and general counsel of Agtegra Cooperative; Salil Mehra, Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law; and Garcia-Blanco. The panelists discussed the contributions in agriculture, technology and cybersecurity, addressing various pressing issues facing the agricultural sector, legal system and society today.
Ana Clara Mansur Carvalho presented on precision farming and agricultural data transfers between the United States and European Union. Carvalho is a researcher at the Panthéon-Assas University and will begin a Ph.D. next fall in the Department of Law at Oxford University. Carvalho has worked as a general data protection regulation consultant in Paris for over three years.
Mehra gave a presentation titled "Chickenization, Data Harvesting, and Antitrust," in which he discussed changes in antitrust bargaining power in poultry, pork and beef industries. His research focuses on antitrust/competition law and technology, with particular attention to algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
For this event, continuing legal education (CLE) credits were approved for Iowa and Nebraska and are pending approval in Minnesota.
The event was organized by South Dakota Law Review Symposium Editor Jaquilyn Waddell Boie and Professor Hannah Haksgaard, J.D.
The South Dakota Law Review on Cybersecurity, Technology and Agricultural Law was dedicated in honor of Professor Thomas Horton, whose efforts and encouragement made the day possible. Horton was a distinguished advocate and scholar in the field of antitrust, an unparalleled force in shaping the lives of young attorneys and a pillar of the Knudson School of Law Community.
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