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Third Annual Conference on Food Law and Policy

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

November 15, 2024


Conference Agenda 
 

9:00-9:30 am                                Registration and Breakfast         

   

9:30 am                                        Opening Remarks 

 

9:45 am to 10:55 am                    Works-in-Progress Workshops (concurrent in breakout rooms)

 

Goals for workshops: 1) substantive subject matter-oriented discussions; 2) a space for scholars to receive feedback on their works in progress; and 3) an opportunity for conference participants to identify key topic areas and authors of scholarship in the field.

 

Authors will briefly provide an overview of their papers (in about 5 minutes or less), and moderators will facilitate discussions among the group attendees. All attendees should read draft works in progress and feedback requests in advance of the sessions.

 

Workshop 1

  • Margaret Sova McCabe, Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation, Professor of Law, University of Arkansas, Reimagining American Dietary Guidance

  • Katya S. Cronin, Associate Professor of Fundamentals of Lawyering, The George Washington University Law School & Affiliate Associate Professor, The Global Food Institute, A One-Health Approach to Healthy Food

  • Carl H. Coleman, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School, Harnessing the Power of System 1 Thinking: Front-of-Package Food Labeling in the U.S. and E.U.

Workshop 2

  • Lingxi Chenyang, Associate Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Food Antidemocracy

  • Kyle Winterboer, Master of Public Policy, University California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Can We Ever Stop That Smell?: The Rise and Fall of LA’s Slaughterhouses, How They Built Industry, and the 120 year Power Struggle to Address Smells Near Downtown LA

  • Tammi S. Etheridge, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Agriculture’s New Data Imperative

 

Workshop 3

  • Emily Broad Leib, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School, From Excess to Sustenance: Reclaiming the Right to Food

  • Michael Roberts, Founding Executive Director, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy and Professor of Policy, The Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Constitution: Power and Values, 1943 to 1965

  • Phylis Mbiu, University of East London, Balancing Fiscal Policies and Consumer Welfare: The Impact of Taxation on Kenya’s Right to Food

  • Maria Cudowska, Faculty Fellow, Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law, Negotiating Food Security

 

 

10:55 am to 11:15 am                Morning Coffee Break + Networking

 

11:15 to 12:15 pm                      Deep Dive Panel: Food Is Medicine: Innovations for Food Access and Equity

 

                                                              Moderator:     Alan Shannon, Public Affairs Director, United States Department of Agriculture

                                                         

                                                          Panelists:     

                                                                                 Heather Latino, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic;

 

                                                                                 Dion Dawson, Chief Dreamer, Dion’s Dream; 

                                                                                 Connie Spreen, Co-founder and Executive Director, Experimental Station

                                                         

12:15 to 1:30 pm                        Lunch & Lunch Keynote Speaker (speaker: 12:45-1:20 pm)

 

                                                              Speaker:         Stacy Dean, Carbonell Family Executive Director, The Global Food Institute at                                                                                                       George Washington University 

 

1:30 to 2:15 pm                          Early-Stage Works-in-Progress/Lightning Round Feedback Workshop

 

                                                              Moderator:     Lee Miller, Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School; Board Chair, Academy of Food Law                                                                                               and Policy

                                                         Presenters:     

                                                                                 Emma Scott, Associate Professor, Food & Agriculture Clinic Director, Center for 

                                                                                 Agriculture and Food Systems, Vermont Law and Graduate School, Raising the Bar –                                                                                          Opportunities to Catalyze Improved Working Conditions for U.S. Farmworkers

                   

                                                                                 Ernesto Hernandez, Professor, Chapman University Fowler School of Law,

                                                                                 Corn, Trade, and the Constitution

 

                                                                                 Trevor Findley, Clinical Instructor, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School,                                                                                               A Tale of Two Safety Nets

 

2:20 to 3:05 pm                           From Concept to Cover: An Author’s Experience in Publishing

                                                               Author:           Andrea Freeman, author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the                                                                                         United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

                                                           

                                                          Facilitator:       Lee Miller, Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School; Board Chair, Academy of Food Law                                                                                                and Policy

 

3:10 to 4:10 pm                          Deep Dive Panel: Opportunities for Food System Change in the Farm Bill

Moderator:       Scott Faber, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Environmental Working                                            Group; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law

                                                         

Panelists:

                        Susan Schneider, Professor of Law; Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural &                                      Food Law, University of Arkansas School of Law;

                        Emma Scott, Associate Professor, Food & Agriculture Clinic Director, Center for 

                                                                                  Agriculture and Food Systems, Vermont Law and Graduate School; 

                       Jonathan W. Coppess, Associate Professor of Agricultural Policy, Dept. of 

                       Agricultural and Consumer Economics; Associate Professor College of Law,                                                 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

4:10 to 4:20 pm                          Networking & Coffee Break

 

4:20 to 5:20 pm                          Strategic Visioning for the Academy of Food Law and Policy

 

Moderator:     Laurie Beyranevand, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Agriculture and                                          Food Systems, Vermont Law and Graduate School

 

                                                             Panelists:

   Josh Galperin, Associate Professor of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace;

 

   Joanna Sax, Professor, California Western School of Law;

 

   Diana Winters, Deputy Director, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA                     School of Law

5:20 pm                                       Closing Remarks

5:30 to 7:30 pm                           Closing Reception at The Talbott Hotel

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