(Papers to be published in Journal of Food Law and Policy)
One or more presenters to be selected from Call for Papers.
Can the nation’s obesity crisis be attributed to our national and regional food and agriculture policies? If so, what kinds of law and policy changes might help redress the crisis? This section program, co-sponsored with the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care, will explore these questions. Experts in tort litigation, animal law, and farm-to-table clinical law teaching will describe their research. The Health Commissioner for the City of New Orleans will discuss the City’s new policy to combat childhood obesity, and identify priority areas of research required by policymakers to produce informed and coherent policy reforms. The program will also include a Call for Papers. Although all proposals will be given full consideration, the Section particularly invites research based on empirical investigations of any causal relationship between agricultural commodity policy or other food policies and obesity. Panelists will also be encouraged to address how work on food and agriculture law and policy can be better integrated into the law school curriculum.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.