The Food Law and Policy Clinic is pleased to welcome new Clinical Fellow Esther Akwii. Esther Akwii eakwii@law.harvard.edu 617.496.1413 Esther Akwii joined the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic in September 2020 as a Clinical Fellow. Before joining […]
As we embark on this new semester amid the unusual challenges posed by COVID-19, Faculty Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Professor Emily Broad Leib, is leading a unique opportunity to explore the particular difficulties and opportunities presented […]
New research finds that hepatitis C treatment restrictions based on alcohol or drug use violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and undermine efforts to end the hepatitis C epidemic. The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) of Harvard […]
This blog post was originally published by Farm Bill Law Enterprise on August 20th, 2020 on farmbilllaw.org. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a number of new and difficult challenges for families, farmers and other small business owners, and food producers […]
This article was originally written by Janelle Nanos and published in The Boston Globe on August 14, 2020. During the pandemic surge in the spring, Dr. Amy Smith, a family medicine physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, received a desperate […]
This article was originally written by Erin O’Donnell and published in the September-October 2020 Edition of the Harvard Magazine. In the United States, “The primary way we define ‘food safety’ is, ‘If I eat this product today, will I be in […]
The Food Law and Policy Clinic is pleased to welcome new clinical fellow Joseph Beckmann. Joseph Beckman jbeckmann@law.harvard.edu 617-998-0224 Joseph Beckmann joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic in August 2020 as a Clinical Fellow. He received a B.A. in […]
The Texas Health & Human Services Commission (“HHSC”) has been challenged by Medicaid enrollees for instituting a policy that rations coverage of prescription drugs to cure Hepatitis C virus (“HCV”). In a class action lawsuit recently filed in federal district […]
This article was originally written by Sarah McBride and published in Bloomberg Quint on August 13, 2020. By the end of April, Olivier Griss knew he had a problem. Coke Farm, the San Juan Bautista, Calif. business his stepfather started […]
This article was originally written by Danny McArthur and was published in the Daily Journal on August 12, 2020. Coronavirus continues to reveal striking health disparities as a result of systemic healthcare issues, according to State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs […]
