Advancing Food Law and Policy.

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.