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

Join us for a virtual information session about opportunities to work in food law with Resnick Center Deputy Director Diana Winters.

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

1:00PM-2:00PM PST

Virtual (Zoom)

*Zoom link to be sent morning of via email

RSVP HERE

Join the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy and the International & Comparative Law Program at UCLA Law for a dynamic panel discussion on Michael T. Roberts’ new book about International Food Law. With contributions from over 30 international legal scholars, this topical Research Handbook on International Food Law provides a crucial and reflective examination of the rules, power dynamics, legal doctrines, societal norms, and frameworks that govern the modern global food system. 

Please join the Institute for Society and Genetics, Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy, and the Rothman Institute for a dynamic book talk featuring Xaq Frohlich to introduce his new book titled From Label To Table: A Critical History of Food Labeling and Lifestyle Politics.

Abstract: In recent decades there has been a proliferation of third-party certification schemes in food markets, which consumers experienced at the supermarket through various new labels for lifestyles: organic, non-GM, dolphin-safe, carbon footprint, fair-trade, and animal-welfare approved, among others. Drawing from my forthcoming book, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (UC Press, 2023), this talk gives a history of this “informational turn” in food politics, starting with the U.S. FDA’s turn to nutrition labeling in the 1970s. It then situates debates in the 1990s about GMO labeling and USDA “organic,” debates that continue today, in a larger history of risk labeling and credence goods that illustrates persistent ambivalence among policymakers on the wisdom of using the food label as a tool to “empower” or “nudge” consumers on controversial subjects. While many have heralded informative labels, such as the FDA’s introduction of the Nutrition Facts panel in 1993, as a new form of hands-off, yet pro-public governance that enables healthy choices, I make the case that informative labels are also a problematic market device that unloads responsibility onto consumers, and, as is the case for the recent “bioengineered” foods label, can even work as a technology of obfuscation, rather than transparency. Through a history of the food label in America, this talk explores the struggles of scientific, legal, and market experts to frame food, diet and risk for the average consumer.