With implementation of modern technologies, issues including credit, intellectual property, trade and commerce related to agricultural products are dealt within the sphere of this law.
Simply put, agricultural law is the study of the special laws and regulations that apply to the production and sale of agricultural products.
[3] These early efforts were short-lived, however, and agricultural law as a distinct discipline did not resurface for three decades.
[8] In recent years, agricultural law studies have expanded to incorporate a wider consideration of the impact of agricultural production, including issues of environmental law, sustainability, animal welfare, and food law and policy.
In 2010, the second law school textbook was published with the title, Food, Farming & Sustainability: Readings in Agricultural Law.