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Recognizing that a growing number of graduate and senior undergraduate students may be interested in studying the intersection of law and their field of study, the University of Iowa College of Law is creating a one-year, Master in the Studies of Law degree. 1, lawmakers are scrambling to pass a fix before the end of the year.

Qualified students at the partner schools will be able to apply courses taken during their first year of law school to check out both their law degree and their bachelor's my blog degree.

“It’s really frustrating,” said Carr, whose Carr’s Ciderhouse makes sparkling ciders using specially bred varieties of apples with high sugar content. They also don’t want to make it easy for virtually any vineyard, regardless of size, to distribute their products to retailers on their own. At a time when the local-food movement is hugely popular, it will be illegal for some 34 Massachusetts wine- and cider-makers to deliver to retailers in their own state.

Agrawal said the curriculum — which includes 30 semester hours of study — would be highly individualized to each student's needs. He also makes an after-dinner drink, Apple Pommeau, a cider fortified with apple brandy.

College of Law Dean Gail Agrawal said Friday continue that the proposed program still needs to obtain the acquiescence of its accrediting body, the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. She said the law school could not even begin to apply for acquiescence until the proposal had been approved by the university administration and regents.

In a few weeks, though, Carr risks being a click here modern-day bootlegger, as the law in Massachusetts that allows small “farmer-wineries” to distribute their own wine and ciders to stores and restaurants will abruptly expire — by accident. No one is quite sure how the self-distribution provision was removed; legislators insisted it was a mistake. “God knows what would happen to my business.”

According to the law school website, the other partner schools include Buena Vista University, Clarke University, Coe College, Iowa State read more University, Morningside College, University of Dubuque, the University of Northern Iowa and Wartburg College.

Agrawal said, based on the response for similar programs in other law schools, she wasn't click here anticipating a "huge master class" for the first semester in August 2015 or 2016.. The bedrock of the state’s alcohol regulations requires continue most producers, particularly the large ones, to distribute their drinks through wholesalers.

“It would be a bone-crusher,” said Kip Kumler, who self-distributes hundreds of cases of wine he produces at Turtle Creek Winery in Lincoln. The Iowa state Board of Regents approved the program at its meeting Wednesday.

Agrawal anticipates that the ABA will grant its acquiescence in late spring, but she wasn't sure if that will be enough time to begin the program in the fall of 2015.

In July, Massachusetts lawmakers mistakenly dropped the longstanding provision permitting such sales when they changed state law to make it easier read more for out-of-state vineyards to ship wine directly to consumers. They do not want to dismantle the new system for direct-shipping. The law in question only deals with wine and cider, not beer.

Wine- and cider-makers noticed the problem late last month, when the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, or ABCC, sent them an advisory explaining the new direct shipping rules. Under the new rules, farmer-wineries can get a license to ship directly to consumers. The master's students would take classes with the law students, and the college would not be creating a host of new courses for the degree — with the possible exception of adding an accelerated course on American government as an introductory class.

Imagine you're an engineering student and, in order to understand how to make the most of your inventions and innovations, you want to learn more about property and patenting law. But if they want to continue selling to stores and restaurants, they would now have to go through one of the state’s alcohol distributors, who might be uninterested in click taking on the low-volume businesses.

But with the new rules set to go into effect Jan. Do you sign up for three years of law school after graduation?

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On the farm with a Hadley cider producer

Carr's Ciderhouse in Hadley has views of the Connecticut River and surrounding countryside.

From his idyllic orchard in Hadley overlooking the Connecticut River Valley, Jonathan Carr uses a century-old press to make an elegant sparkling cider and other apple drinks that he delivers himself to liquor stores, jamming 30 cases at a time into his Pontiac hatchback.

{State Representative John Scibak, a Democrat from South Hadley who cochairs the committee that oversees the alcohol industry, said he is working to have the Legislature quickly correct the mistake.|Because check out of the complexity of the state’s alcohol laws, legislators aren’t sure if they can simply restore the expiring provision without creating another problem elsewhere