Our food can and should be safer, better and healthier.
Food law can help.
Won’t you join us at the table?
Promoting research, scholarship and innovation in food law.
We work to improve the laws and regulations that govern food and advance the American food experience.
We reveal and illuminate the obtuse legal structure around the food we eat to advance more effective regulation and oversight.
Partnering with others in the field to develop new curricular offerings.
We expand the interest focus on food law issues by bringing together students, leading scholars, practitioners, politicians and the public.
Food, Federalism, and the Curious Case of Foie Gras
Discussing the cutting-edge constitutional issues in Food Law as they relate to California’s attempt to ban foie gras — and how these same legal issues affect all the other food on our plates.
read moreWatch “Food Marketing to Children”
We had an overflow turnout for the 3rd Annual UCLA-Harvard Food Law conference, held this year in Los Angeles. The conference addressed the regulation of food marketing to children.
read moreThe Legal Case For Limitations On Food Marketing Targeted at Children
Children are bombarded with unhealthy food choices in advertising. Congress needs to encourage the FTC to intervene against the food and beverage industry in order to promote the healthier options.
read more