Food Law and Policy - Center For Health Law and Policy Innovation

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The Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School (FLPC), a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, was established in 2010 to link Harvard Law School students with opportunities to work with clients and communities on various food law and policy issues. The FLPC provides legal and policy guidance to a range of clients seeking to increase access to healthy foods, assist small and sustainable farmers in breaking into new commercial markets, and reduce waste of healthy, wholesome food, while educating law students about ways to use law and policy to impact the food system. The FLPC engages a strong policy orientation as well as substantive expertise in the food system to assist a range of federal, state, and local clients around the world in understanding the legal and policy regimes that apply to food production and sales.

FLPC, in partnership with Racing Horse Productions, released the short film EXPIRED? Food Waste in America in February 2016. EXPIRED explores how misleading date labels on food products contribute to food waste in America. Every year, 40% of the food produced in the United States goes uneaten, leading to 160 billion pounds of wasted food in our landfills.

The FLPC collaborates closely with the Harvard Food Law Lab, which was founded in the Fall of 2013 by Professor Jacob Gersen as a center for coordinated and directed research in the emerging field of food law. The Food Law Lab is situated within the Petrie-Flom Center. For more information about the Food Law Lab, please click here.

FLPC staff members Emily Broad Leib, Emma Clippinger, Christina Rice, and former FLPC staff member Ona Balkus.

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Emily Broad Leib, Director
Emma Clippinger, Clinical Fellow
Sarah Downer, Clinical Instructor
Lee Miller, Clinical Fellow
Bettina Neuefeind, Research Fellow, Harvard Law School; Affiliate, Food Law and Policy Clinic (On Leave)
Christina Rice, Clinical Fellow