Food Law and Policy

Michael T. Roberts is the founding Executive Director of the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. He has long been actively involved in the development of food law world-wide. He has authored the first major treatise on food law, titled,&emFood Law in the United States&em(Cambridge University Press 2016).& He is a Research Fellow for Renmin University School of Law’s Center for Coordination and Innovation for Food Safety and an Adjunct Professor of Law for East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai). He also lectures frequently in Italy and is involved with the University of Tuscia, European Food Law Center (Viterbo, Italy). He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Michigan State University, where he teaches a distant education course on China food law. He was formerly with the University of Arkansas School of Law as a Research Professor of Law and as the Director of the National Agricultural Law Center, where he helped establish the law school's&emJournal of Food Law and Policyem. He has practiced food law, as the former first chair of the Lex Mundi (world’s largest association of private law firms) international Agribusiness practice group and as of counsel in Washington D.C. with Venable LLP. He was also a visiting scholar and consultant to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome.