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About the Academy

WHO WE ARE

The Academy of Food Law & Policy serves to recognize, promote, and improve legal education in the field of food law and policy. We provide a forum to stimulate intellectual discourse, encourage scholarship, enhance teaching, and support student interest.

Board of Trustees

LEADERSHIP

Our Mission

MISSION

The Academy stimulates intellectual discourse, encourages and recognizes scholarship, enhances teaching, supports student interest, and promotes the academic field of food law and policy.

Founding Board of Trustees

OUR FOUNDERS

• Neil Hamilton — Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa
• Peter Barton Hutt — Covington and Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.
• Emily Broad Leib — Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Baylen Linnekin — Keep Food Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C.
• Margaret Sova McCabe — University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Michael Roberts — Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California
• Susan Schneider — LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law, University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas

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