Faculty and Staff

Faculty Director
Professor Pollans’s work focuses on understanding the underlying structures of US food law, taking a critical lens to food safety law, regulation of international food trade, and environmental regulation of food production.

Director, Food and Farm Business Law Clinic
Professor Brown founded the Food and Farm Business Law Clinic in 2017. He practices, teaches, and researches in the areas of corporate and nonprofit law, with an emphasis on social enterprise and food systems.

Staff Attorney, Food and Farm Business Law Clinic
Jack joined the Food and Farm Business Law Clinic in 2021. He previously represented small farmers and provided business planning services through the GrowNYC Farmer Assistance Program, supporting farmers selling in the Greenmarket, the largest network of urban farmers market in the country.

Food Law Fellow
Yasmine Blakely joined Haub Law as the Food and Agriculture Law Fellow in 2024. She graduated with her Bachelors in Exercise Science from The University of Alabama and her Juris Doctorate from Stetson University College of Law. Her research primarily focuses on water insecurity in the U.S., as well as the intersection between social justice and environmental advocacy.

Professor Atwell is also Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. She writes and teaches in the areas of public health and bioethics and has written several articles on public health measures related to obesity and sugar regulation.

Professor Cassuto is Director of the Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment. He has written extensively about food law with a particular emphasis on the environmental and ethical implications of factory farming.

Professor Czarnezki is Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Associate Dean & Executive Director of Environmental Law Programs at Haub Law. His research focuses on food eco-labeling and life-cycle analysis, green public procurement, and global food security. He is also an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, where he is part of a research team modeling global food systems and supply chains.

Professor Dupuis is Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies and Science for Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University. Her research focuses on sustainable governance, political agroecology, and the politics of foods. Her most recent book is Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice(2015) and she co-authored, Food Across Borders.

Professor Galperin’s research in the area of food and agriculture law and policy has focused particularly where agriculture and food law intersect with environmental policy and administrative law doctrine and invasive species management, especially efforts to “eat the invaders.”

Professor Narula is Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies. She has written extensively on the right to food and on the political economy of our food system. From 2008 to 2014, she served as legal advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Her current research focuses on the environmental impacts of the industrial food chain and on developments in international law to advance food sovereignty and protect peasants’ rights.