Food Law in the United States

This is the first comprehensive legal treatise on US food law for lawyers, judges, students, and consumer advocates.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Regulation of food commerce; 3. Regulation of food safety; 4. Regulation of food marketing; 5. Regulation of nutrition; 6. Regulation of food systems.

About the author

Michael T. Roberts is the founding Executive Director of the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. He has previously worked in private food law practice and served as consultant to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Law Institute. He is also the founder of the Journal of Food Law and Policy.

Summary

In Food Law in the United States, Michael T. Roberts addresses the modern food system in a comprehensive, systematic manner that lays out the national legal framework for the regulation of food and the legal tools that fill gaps in this framework.

Product details

• Authors: Michael T. Roberts, Michael T. (University of California Roberts, Roberts Michael T.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2016
• EAN: 9781107117600
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11760-0
• No. of pages: 486
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Agricultural, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, Jurisprudence & general issues, Law & society, Jurisprudence and general issues, Law and society, sociology of law, agricultural law