Professor Margot Pollans joined Haub Law’s faculty in 2015. She is the Faculty Director of the Pace Food Law Center and also the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023–2025 academic years. Previously, she served as the Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar from 2020-2022. She teaches several classes including Agriculture Law and the Environment LAW 920, Food Systems & the Environment Law LAW 806, and Environmental Law Survey LAW 856.
During her time at Haub Law she has been a leader in building the national reputation of the Pace Food Law Center. She is also part of the Farm Bill Law Enterprise, a national partnership of law school programs working toward a farm bill that reflects the long-term needs of our society, including economic opportunity and stability, public health and nutrition, climate change mitigation and adaptation, public resources stewardship, and racial and socioeconomic justice.
Professor Pollans is an accomplished scholar whose primary research interests lie in the areas of food and agriculture law, administrative law and social justice. Her academic work has appeared in a variety of journals including in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review. She is also the co-author of a casebook, Food Law: Cases & Materials. In 2022, she was named the recipient of Haub Law’s distinguished Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for her article, "Eaters, Powerless by Design" published by Michigan Law Review (120 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2022)).
Before joining Haub Law, Professor Pollans was the inaugural academic fellow at UCLA School of Law’s Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy. Previously, she was a Staff Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation, where she worked on a range of environmental litigation and supervised student clinicians. Following law school, Pollans clerked for the Honorable David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In 2017 she was named “40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Food Policy” by the NYC Food Policy Center.
View all of Professor Pollans’s publications on SSRN, Digital Commons or download her CV (PDF).
Food and Beverage Law, Food Systems Law, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Agriculture Law
The Regulatory Review reports on a seminar where scholars assessed the current regulatory landscape of food additives and labeling, referencing Law Professor Margot J. Pollans’ recent article published in the Michigan Law Review.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Professor Margot Pollans has been appointed as James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023-2025 term.