I. Ben Leonard, REGULATE FOP NOW! A Case for Mandatory FDA Regulation Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling
II. David Winston, Repealing the Agricultural Exemption in the FLSA and the NLRA
The Resnick Program invites UCLA students to submit articles analyzing food law and policy issues for publication on the Program website.
UCLA-Harvard Food Law and Policy Conference | October 24, 2014
Transparency in the Global Food System: What Information and to What Ends?
Panel 1: What We Talk About When We Talk About Transparency: The Meaning of "Transparency" In the Modern Food
UCLA-Harvard Food Law and Policy Conference | October 24, 2014
Transparency in the Global Food System: What Information and to What Ends?
Panel 2: Information to What End: The Role of the Consumer in Driving System Change
UCLA-Harvard Food Law and Policy Conference | October 24, 2014
Transparency in the Global Food System: What Information and to What Ends?
Panel 3: Can More Transparency Help Fix a Broken Food System?
Food and Drug Policy Forum, Volume 5, Issue 3 | April 3, 2015
In late 2013 we set about planning our first major conference as the newly established Resnick Program in Food Law and Policy at UCLA Law School. Despite the expansive range of topics encompassed by food
law and policy, there was a clear and obvious subject choice: food litigation. The growth in food litigation in recent years is striking and has significantly and distinctively helped shape the emerging field of food law.
The resurgence of urban agriculture reflects a variety of trends in American culture, including the continuing salience of the Jeffersonian vision and dissatisfaction with many aspects of the modern food system. This dissatisfaction covers a litany of challenges, including, among others, environmental harms, food access problems, hunger, and lack of transparency. To these ends, advocates have fought to reverse a century of laws and policies aimed at removing agriculture from city life.
Liberalising Agricultural Policy for Sugar in Europe Risks Damaging Public Health (with Oliver Mytton and Pablo Monsivais), British Medical Journal (2015).
Sickeningly Sweet: Analysis and Solutions for Adverse Dietary Consequences of European Agricultural Law, 11 Journal of Food Law & Policy 252 (2015).
The Beginnings of the Journal of Food Law & Policy, 11 Journal of Food Law & Policy 1 (2015).
This essay celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Food Law & Policy by chronicling the entwined development of the journal and the nascent discipline of food law and policy. Today the Journal is an important scholarly publication focused on food law and policy.
The University of California’s Global Food Initiative challenges campuses to develop solutions for one of the most pressing issues of our time: the “quest to establish global food security and address related challenges of nutrition and sustainability.” This report, written as part of the Global Food Initiative, focuses specifically on the need for law schools to more visibly and holistically address this pressing societal challenge, and examines how law schools in the University of California system and across the country are addressing, and can further address, social, economic, and envir