Neil D. Hamilton is an American lawyer and agricultural economics writer. Hamilton currently holds the
Dwight D. Opperman Dwight Darwin Opperman (June 26, 1923''Iowa, World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954'' – June 13, 2013) was an American businessman and lawyer. He was chairman of Key Investments, a privately held venture capital firm focusing on high-tech ventur ...
Chair of Law at
Drake Law School in
Des Moines, Iowa, where he is also the Director of the Agricultural Law Center. He is a former chairman of the Agriculture Law Section of the
Association of American Law Schools. He was also mentioned as a possible
Secretary of Agriculture
The United States secretary of agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other governments.
The department includes several organi ...
in the Obama Administration.
[Kim Severson]
"A Pitch to Obama on Food and Farming"
''The New York Times'', December 4, 2008.
Before coming to Drake Law School in 1983, he taught at the
University of Arkansas. He was an Assistant Attorney General in the office of the
Iowa Attorney General from 1979 to 1981.
Hamilton is a past president of the
American Agricultural Law Association (AALA). He has authored books and articles on agricultural and environmental law. Hamilton wrote "The Food Chain", a column in the ''
Des Moines Register''.
Education
* B.S., Forestry and Economics,
Iowa State University, 1976.
* J.D.,
University of Iowa, 1979.
Bibliography
*''A Farmer’s Guide to Production Contracts'' (1995)
*''What Farmers Need to Know About Environmental Law''
*"How Industrialization is Restructuring Food Production", ''
Leopold Letter'' (vol. 6, nos. 1,2)
References
External links
Drake Law School profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Neil
American legal writers
American legal scholars
Iowa lawyers
Iowa State University alumni
University of Iowa College of Law alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Arkansas faculty
Drake University faculty
Agricultural law scholars