Keith G. Meyer
E.S. & Tom
W. Hampton Professor of Law
Subjects: Agriculture Law, Commercial Law
Phone: 785-864-9230
E-mail:kmeyer@ku.edu
Profile
An honor graduate of the University of Iowa College of
Law, Keith Meyer joined the KU law faculty in 1969. In 1986 he was named
the first E.S. and Tom W. Hampton Professor of Law in recognition of
his outstanding scholarship in shaping the field of agricultural law.
His work in agricultural law and commercial law is known, and highly
regarded, nationally and internationally. He has been president of the
American Agricultural Law Association, chair of the Association of American
Law Schools Committee on Agricultural Law, an active member of the ABA
Forum Committee on Lawyers and Agriculture and the American Law Institute,
and editor in chief of the Journal of Agricultural Taxation and Law.
Meyer is a dedicated teacher, interested in and accessible to students,
and was the recipient of the law school's Dean Frederick J. Moreau Award
in 1999.
Representative Publications
Agricultural Law in a Nutshell (with Pederson) (1995);
Agricultural Law Cases and Materials (with Pedersen, Thorson & Davidson)
(1985); "Agricultural Credit Institutions, Operations, and Guarantees
in the United States," (with Grossman), 46 American Journal of Comparative
Law 275 (1998); "A Primer on Purchase Money Security Interests Under
Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code," 50 Kansas Law Review
143 (2001); "Should the Unique Treatment of Agricultural Liens Continue?" 24
Indiana Law review 315 (1991).
Research Interests
Agriculture law, commercial law
Education
J.D. 1967, Iowa, Note Editor, Iowa Law Review; B.A. 1964,
Cornell College
Admitted
Iowa 1967, D.C. 1968, Kansas 1970
Career History
Clerk, Hon. Carl McGowan, U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit,
1967-68; Associate Professor, Georgetown 1968-69; Associate Professor,
Kansas 1969-73; Professor since 1973; Visiting Professor, Iowa 1975-76;
Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, spring 1993 & 1998; Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs, Kansas 1994-95; Visiting Professor, University
of Wales, Swansee, fall 1996; Visiting Professor, University of Canterbury,
New Zealand, spring 1997.
Member
ALI; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Agricultural Taxation & Law
(WG&L), 1982-92; President, American Agricultural Law Association,
1985-86, Board of Directors, 1983-86; Member, Kansas Supreme Court Mandatory
CLE Commission, 1986-89.