Stephen Carpenter is a Rebellious Lawyer with Farmers’ Legal Action Group (FLAG), a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services and support to family farmers and their communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.

Stephen Carpenter Receives Annual Award from AALA

“Please join us in congratulating FLAG Senior Staff Attorney and Deputy Director Stephen Carpenter, who recently received the 2014 Excellence in Agricultural Law Award from the American Agricultural Law Association at their annual conference. Stephen says he is ‘honored to be chosen by his peers’ for this prestigious award.”

Here are some interesting links to writings by and about Stephen Carpenter:

Carpenter, Stephen. The Relevance of Family Farms Today 

Stephen Carpenter University of Minnesota Profile

Stephen Carpenter, A NEW HIGHER CALLING IN AGRICULTURAL LAW, 18 DRAKE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL LAW 1 (2013)

Stephen Carpenter, Farm Service Agency Credit Programs and USDA National Appeals Division, Originally published in DRAKE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL LAW, 3 DRAKE J. AGRIC. L. 35 (1998)

Stephen Carpenter, Farmers’ Guide to Minnesota Lending Law

STEPHEN CARPENTER , RANDI ILYSE ROTH, Family Farmers in Poverty: A Guide to Agricultural Law for Legal Services Practitioners

Stephen Carpenter FLAG Profile

Stephen Carpenter, Stanford Law School, Farmers’ Legal Action Group, St. Paul, MN, Skadden Fellowship Profile

“It’s Not Just White Men Driving Tractors”

Farm Bill, Major Issues

Life Science Ethics, edited by Gary L. Comstock

LL.M. Program in Agricultural & Food Law brings guest speakers to School of Law

JAMES STEPHEN CARPENTER, NOTE: FARM CHEMICALS, SOIL EROSION, AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, 13 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 190 (1994)

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