The rise and fall of LA’s slaughterhouses, how they built industry, and the 120 year power struggle to address smells near Downtown LA.
This White Paper analyzes the recent closing of the last major slaughterhouse near Downtown Los Angeles and the historical effects that polluting industries like slaughterhouses have had on major metropolitan areas. The paper also covers new approaches to creating a sustainable industry post-pandemic.
The Williams Institute's 2024 NYC Fall Salon will take place on Thursday, September 12 from 6:00-8:30 PM at the Meta office in Hudson Yards.
We invite you to join our discussion on the current state of LGBTQ+ law and policy and what’s at stake in the upcoming November election and beyond.For tickets to our 2024 NYC Fall Salon, please visit: https://bit.ly/NYCFallSalon24RSVP ends on September 4, 2024.
For more information, please contact Williamsdev@law.ucla.edu.
Please join us on April 18-19, 2024, as the Resnick Center celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a conference on the past, present, and future of the field of food law and policy.
On April 18, the Resnick Center and the Academy for Food Law and Policy (AFLP) will co-host a day of panel sessions on the history of and models in teaching the field of food law and policy, as well as a workshop for selected new works in food law and policy. This day is designed for those teaching or interested in teaching food law and policy, though all are welcome.
On April 19, the Resnick Center will hold panels on climate change and food; nutrition policy, labelling, and healthy living; and how systems thinking can impact food law and policy locally, nationally, and globally. The day will include reflections on the past decade of the Center and recognition for the generosity of our founder, the Resnick Family Foundation. Stewart Resnick will join us for a special tribute. The keynote address will be given by Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, who founded and leads the Food Systems for the Future team as President and CEO. Cousin served previously as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director and the US Ambassador for Food and Agriculture. She is a Distinguished Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Food Security and Environment and a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
More details can be found here: Reflecting on the Past to Advance the Future | UCLA Law
Please join us on April 18-19, 2024, as the Resnick Center celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a conference on the past, present, and future of the field of food law and policy.
On April 18, the Resnick Center and the Academy for Food Law and Policy (AFLP) will co-host a day of panel sessions on the history of and models in teaching the field of food law and policy, as well as a workshop for selected new works in food law and policy. This day is designed for those teaching or interested in teaching food law and policy, though all are welcome.
On April 19, the Resnick Center will hold panels on climate change and food; nutrition policy, labelling, and healthy living; and how systems thinking can impact food law and policy locally, nationally, and globally. The day will include reflections on the past decade of the Center and recognition for the generosity of our founder, the Resnick Family Foundation. Stewart Resnick will join us for a special tribute. The keynote address will be given by Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, who founded and leads the Food Systems for the Future team as President and CEO. Cousin served previously as the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director and the US Ambassador for Food and Agriculture. She is a Distinguished Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Food Security and Environment and a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
More details can be found here: Reflecting on the Past to Advance the Future | UCLA Law
The Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy launched at UCLA Law in 2013. The center has grown in the decade since, thanks to several major gifts from the Resnick Family Foundation and Lynda and Stewart Resnick ’62.
“Through our research, writing, teaching and convening, we have worked toward bettering the food system.”