Center for International Trade & Agriculture

The Center for International Trade and Agriculture brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers and students around the study and practice of international trade and agriculture.

The center aims to promote key issues in international trade and agriculture through research and outreach in Kansas and around the world. To accomplish that mission, the center will:

  • Sponsor interdisciplinary conferences addressing issues of current importance to legal practitioners, scholars and policymakers in international trade and agriculture, with special emphasis on matters of importance to the state of Kansas. Learn more about the 2012 conference.
  • Host visiting scholars, practitioners or policymakers to interact with students, faculty and alumni through guest lectures and mini-courses.
  • Educate and train law students through relevant course work and summer placements to engage in legal practice, prepare for work in law reform, or engage in agribusiness and international trade in areas related to trade and agriculture.
  • Host a CITA Working Papers Series to facilitate scholarship and education on issues in international trade and agriculture.

The center is relatively unique in the academic world in that it focuses neither exclusively on international trade nor on agriculture, but rather emphasizes the intellectually fascinating and practically relevant synthesis between the two fields. Thus, within the purview of the center are topics such as farm subsidies, food security, genetic modification, market access, and sanitary and phytosanitary standards.

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