Roger A. McEowen
Visiting Professor of Law
M.S., Iowa State University, 1990
J.D., Drake University School of Law, 1991
(785) 670-1615
Office 321
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Roger A. McEowen is the Leonard Dolezal Professor in Agricultural Law at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa, where he is also the Director of the ISU Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation. At ISU, Professor McEowen develops and conducts an educational program in agricultural law and policy and is responsible for developing the curriculum and instructional program for the Iowa Farm Income Tax Schools.
Before joining Iowa State in 2004, Professor McEowen was an associate professor of agricultural law and extension specialist in agricultural law and policy at Kansas State. From 1991-1993, Professor McEowen was in the full-time practice of law with Kelley, Scritsmier and Byrne in North Platte, Nebraska. He has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, teaching in both the J.D. and L.L.M. programs, and has taught at the Drake University School of Law Summer Institute in Agricultural Law.
Professor McEowen has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Agricultural Taxation and Law, Indiana Law Review, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, North Dakota Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, the Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, Tax Notes, West's Social Security Reporting System, Toledo Law Review, Washburn Law Journal, Creighton Law Review, Agricultural Law Update, and the Agricultural Law Digest. He is also the lead author of two agricultural law textbooks, and authors the monthly publication "Kansas Farm and Estate Law" and several Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) Tax Management Portfolios.
In 2003, Professor McEowen was named the recipient of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA) Distinguished Service Award. He is also the recipient of the AALA’s award of excellence for professional scholarship and is a past member of the AALA Board of Directors.
Professor McEowen is a member of the Iowa and Kansas Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in Nebraska.
Professor McEowen is visiting at Washburn Law during the fall 2010 semester.
