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
On March 13, 2015, the National Sea Grant Law Center and the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law held a conference called the California Aquaculture Law Symposium. The goal of the conference was to facilitate conversation about the aquaculture industry within the legal sphere. This report provides an overview of that conference, including a background on aquaculture, a description of the event, the panelists featured at the event, and their perspectives and recommendations for how aquaculture can proceed.
As the modern food system continues to transform food—its composition, taste, availability, value, and appearance—consumers are increasingly confronted by legal and regulatory issues that affect us all on a daily basis. In Food Law in the United States, Michael Roberts addresses these issues in a comprehensive, systematic manner that lays out the national legal framework for the regulation of food and the legal tools that fill gaps in this framework, including litigation, state law, and private standards.
I. Damian A. Martin, Environmental Regulation of Marijuana Cultivation in California: Got the Munchies for Some Regulation But Only Boring Old Sticks Are On the Menu
II. Justine Coleman, Bee Aware of Pesticides: Is the Legal System Protecting Our Pollinators?
Congressional Outlook 2016: Food (with Michael T. Roberts), Law 360 Expert Analysis (2016).
In this article, Emilie Aguirre and Michael Roberts provide background on and forecast the consequences of policy changes in the food sector, particularly the nexus between environment and public health in the food supply chain.