We provide direct transactional legal services to farmers and food businesses, offer focused legal training, and advocate for systemic policy changes at the local, state, regional, and federal levels.
91视频 Food Law Center
The Food Law Center at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91视频 supports the transition to a just and sustainable food system, by providing legal services and advocacy, scholarship, and student education. Through our Food and Farm Business Law Clinic, we address the unmet legal needs of farmers, food and beverage entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen food sovereignty in disadvantaged communities, foster the growth of alternative models of food production and distribution, and promote the emergence of a more sustainable climate-friendly food system.
What We Do
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is home to the largest food law faculty in the country. Through faculty and student scholarship in food law, we seek to advance understanding of the role of law in shaping the food system.
Our students learn and practice food law through client pro bono work in our Food and Farm Business Law Clinic, in addition to food law coursework, independent research projects, and externships.
Food and Farm Business Law Clinic
The Food and Farm Business Law Clinic provides pro bono transactional legal services to small farm businesses, artisan food manufacturers, craft beverage entrepreneurs, and related nonprofit organizations.
鈥淢y passion for agriculture issues is deeply rooted. I grew up on a seedstock Simmental cattle operation in Shelbyville, Illinois where I worked on my family鈥檚 farm. The education I received at 91视频 Haub Law really brought it all together for me."
Cari Rincker 鈥07
Lawyer, Educator, Author, Podcast Host
"The Food and Farm Business Law Clinic鈥檚 work touches on multiple areas of law, centered around 鈥渢ransactional鈥 corporate practice, to help our clients."
Professor Jonathan Brown
Director, Food and Farm Business Law Clinic
鈥淚t鈥檚 time to build science-based support for ocean mariculture proving that protein production is possible in the ocean in balance with the environment.鈥
Donna Lanzetta 鈥86
CEO & Founder of Manna Fish Farms, Inc.
Food Law Center News
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Faculty and StaffJune 1, 2023 -
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Press ReleaseSeptember 15, 2022
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