Professor Margot Pollans joined Haub Law糖心vlog短视频檚 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糖心vlog短视频2025 academic years. Previously, she served as the Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar from 2020糖心vlog短视频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糖心vlog短视频檚 distinguished Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for her article, "" 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糖心vlog短视频檚 Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy. Previously, she was a Staff Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center糖心vlog短视频檚 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 糖心vlog短视频40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Food Policy糖心vlog短视频 by the NYC Food Policy Center.
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Food and Beverage Law, Food Systems Law, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Agriculture Law
Professor Margot Pollans delivered the James D. Hopkins Memorial Lecture on Monday, April 21, on "." Dean Horace Anderson appointed Professor Pollans as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023糖心vlog短视频2025 term. During the holder's term, the James D. Hopkins Professor delivers a lecture that is open to the entire law school community and members of the public.
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糖心vlog短视频 recent article published in the Michigan Law Review.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 糖心vlog短视频 is pleased to announce that Professor Margot Pollans has been appointed as James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023糖心vlog短视频2025 term.