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Advancing Food Law and Policy.

The Academy is a nonprofit forum for individuals and institutions engaged in food-law teaching and scholarship. It advances intellectual discourse, strengthens teaching, supports student interest, and promotes the academic field.

What Is Food Law and Policy?

THE FIELD

Food Law & Policy is the study of “the basis and impact of all of the laws and regulations that govern the food and beverages we grow, raise, produce, transport, buy, sell, distribute, share, cook, eat, and drink.” Two of the Academy’s founding board members, Emily Broad Leib and Baylen Linnekin, described the origins of this new discipline in their article, Food Law & Policy: The Fertile Field’s Origins & First Decade, 2014 Wis. L. Rev. 557.

Food Law & Policy embraces a broad study of laws, regulations, and policies at all levels of government that affect the food we eat. It includes traditional subjects such as food safety and labeling while extending to agricultural policy, food assistance, public health, dietary guidance, farmed-animal welfare, food-worker protections, and global food security.

About the Academy

OUR PURPOSE

We connect people and institutions working across food, agriculture, law, and policy—creating space for scholarship, teaching, and professional community.

2026 Scholarship Conference
November 19–20 · Washington, D.C.

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