EFFL 1|2009 Editorial 1 Editorial The articles in this issue of EFFL were developed from presentations at the October 2008 annual conference of the American Agricultural Law Association. The Bock Chair Mini-Symposium (sponsored by the Bock Chair in Agricultural Law at the University of Illinois) focused on the precautionary principle and its application in the trade and regulation of agricultural products and food in the European Union, the United States, and C