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Pace Food Law Center

Faculty & Student Scholarship

Faculty Scholarship

Jonathan H. Brown, Professor of Law for Designated Project or Service, Director of Food and Beverage Law Clinic

  • Nurturing a More Just and Sustainable Food System: The First Year of Pace Law’s Food and Beverage Law Clinic, Natural Resources & Environment (quarterly publication of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources) (July 2018).
  • Beyond Corporate Form; A Response to Dan DePasquale’s, Surbhi Sarang’s and Natalie Vena’s Forging Food Justice through Cooperatives in New York City, Fordham Urb. L.J. (2018).

Margot J. Pollans, Professor of Law, Faculty Director of Pace Food Law Center, Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar

  • Bodies as Food System Sacrifice Zones, in Research Handbook on International Food Law (Michael Roberts ed. Forthcoming 2023).
  • Eaters, Powerless by Design, 120 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2022).
  • FDA as Food System Steward, 46 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2022) (with Matthew Watson).
  • Oped, “Everything Wrong With Our Food System Has Been Made Worse by Coronovirus,” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2020.
  • The New Food Safety, 107 Calif. L. Rev. 1173 (2019) (with Emily Broad Leib).
  • Drinking Water Protection and Agricultural Exceptionalism, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 1195 (2016).
  • Food Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (Wolters Kluwer 2018) (with Jacob Gersen & Michael Roberts).
  • Food Systems, in CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND THE LAW (Michael Berger & Justin Gundlach, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  • Ecolabeling, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Emma Lees & Jorge E. Viñuales eds., 2019) (with Jason Czarnezki & Sarah Main).

Jason J. Czarnezki, Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Associate Dean and Executive Director of Environmental Law Programs

  • Food, Agriculture, Environmental Law (with Mary Jane Angelo and William S. Eubanks) (Environmental Law Institute Press 2013)
  • Eco-Labelling (with Margot Pollans and Sarah Main) in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2019)
  • Informational and Structural Changes for a Sustainable Food System in From Farm-to-Fork (Akron Press 2016)
  • Life Cycle Costing and Food Systems: Concepts, Trends, and Challenges of Impact Valuation (with Katherine Fiedler and Steven Lord), 8 Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law 1 (2018)
  • Crafting Next Generation Eco-Label Policy in Environmental Law (with Katrina Fischer Kuh & K. Ingemar Jönsson), 48 Environmental Law 409 (2018)
  • New York City Rules! Regulatory Models for Environmental and Public Health, 66 Hastings Law Journal 1621 (2015)
  • Creating Order Amidst Food Eco-Label Chaos (with Andrew Homan and Meghan Jeans), 25 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 281 (2015)
  • Greenwashing and Self-Declared Seafood Eco-labels (with Andrew Homan and Meghan Jeans), 28 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 37 (2014)
  • Global Environmental Law: Food Safety & China (with Cameron Field and Yanmei Lin), 25 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 261 (2013), reprinted in Miljörättsliga Perspectiv och Tankevändor 141 (Sweden 2013)
  • Food Court, 30 The Environmental Law Forum 32 (2013)
  • Food, Law & the Environment: Informational and Structural Changes for a Sustainable Food System, 31 Utah Environmental Law Review 263 (2011)
  • The Future of Food Eco-Labeling: Organic, Carbon Footprint, and Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis, 30 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 3 (2011)
  • It’s Time for the FDA to Define ‘Natural’ (with Paul Greenberg), Time (May 4, 2016)
  • Are Food Imports from China Safe?, VTDigger (November 11, 2011)
  • Genetically Engineered Salmon Needn't Be Mystery Meat for Consumers (with Emily Montgomery), HuffPost Green (July 22, 2011)
  • Supreme Court Reviews Genetically Modified Crops (with Holli Brown), Vermont Law Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2011

Smita Narula, Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies

  • From Food Security to Food Sovereignty: Transforming Food Systems through Law and Practice, Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. (forthcoming, 2024)
  • Realizing the Right to Food in Maine: Insights from International Law, 76 Me. L. Rev. 165 (2024).
  • Confronting State Violence: Lessons from India’s Farmer Protests, 54 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 89 (2022).
  • Peasants’ Rights and Food Systems Governance, in The United Nations Declaration on Peasants’ Rights (Mariagrazia Alabrese et al. eds, 2022).
  • Achieving Zero Hunger Using a Rights-based Approach to Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, in Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals: On a Quest for a Sustainable World (Narinder Kakar et al. eds, 2021)
  • “Food is finally on the table of global environmental summits, but to what end?” American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) Blog (December 2022).
  • “An Alternative to Industrial Agriculture,” Frankfurter Rundschau, Nov. 19, 2018 (with Hilal Elver and Marc Edelman) (published in German).

Josh Galperin, Assistant Professor of Law

  • Can we love invasive species to death?, forthcoming, (book chapter) (with Sara E. Kuebbing and Martin Nunez)
  • The Death of Administrative Democracy, 82 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 1 (2020)
  • The Life of Administrative Democracy, 108 Georgetown L. J. 1213 (2020)
  • Food Localization: Empowering Community Food Systems Through the Farm Bill, 14 J. Food L. & Pol’y 8 (2018) (with Brian Albert Fink & Alexandra Oakley Schluntz)
  • No Farms No Food?: A Response to Baylen Linnekin, 45 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1141 (2018) (invited symposium response)
  • Diversified Agricultural Economies (report of the Farm Bill Law Enterprise) (Mar. 2018) (with Emily Broad Leib, Alyssa Chan, D. Lee Miller, Annika Nielsen, Alexandra Oakley Schluntz, Michelle Nowlin, Emily Spiegel, and Nathan A. Rosenberg)
  • Value Hypocrisy and Policy Sincerity: A Food Law Case Study, 42 Vt. L. Rev. 345 (2018)
  • Eating Is Not Political Action, 13 J. Food L. & Pol’y 113 (2017) (invited essay) (with Graham Downey, & Lee Miller)
  • Resilience and Raisins: Partial Takings and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation, 46 Env. L. Rep. 10123 (2016) (with Zaheer Hadi Tajani)
  • Raisins and Resilience: Elaborating Horne’s Compensation Analysis with an Eye Towards Coastal Climate Change Adaptation, 35 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3 (2016)
  • Eating Invaders: Managing Biological Invasions with a Fork and Knife? 28-FALL Nat. Resources & Env't 41 (2013) (with Sara E. Kuebbing)
  • Book review, Jackson Landers: Eating Aliens. One Man’s Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species, Biol. Invasions 15:5 (May 2013) (with Sara E. Kuebbing and Martin Nunez) (book review)

Student Scholarship

Andie D’Angelo, Class of 2022

  • Taking the Whole Hog: How North Carolina’s Right-to-Farm Act Strips Access to Nuisance Suits for Vulnerable Communities, 34 Geo. Envtl. L. Rev. 141 (2022).

Matthew Watson, Class of 2021

  • FDA as Food System Steward, 46 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2022) (with Margot Pollans).

Stephanie Sioufas, Class of 2022

  • Eco-Labels and Sustainable Viticulture to Avoid Environmental Impacts, Environmental Claims Journal, 34:3 (2022).