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The Food and Beverage Law Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce a new collaboration with GrowNYC, operators of the New York City Greenmarkets, the largest network of urban farmers markets in the country...

The Sands Family Foundation and Constellation Brands have agreed to give an additional $600,000 in funding to Haub Law’s Food and Beverage Law Clinic, bringing their total commitment to the Clinic to $1 million. The Food and Beverage Law...

Pace Food and Beverage Law Clinic has been awarded nearly $30,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to aid regional economic development in upstate New York. The federal funding, part of a nearly $1 million grant to invest...

New reports tout a fair deal for farmers, food insecure families, and the environment Three reports out today from the Farm Bill Law Enterprise (FBLE) apply a justice lens to the farm bill debate underway on Capitol Hill. The reports are the product...

Browse the shelves at your local grocery store, and you’ll find highly-processed product after highly-processed product marketing itself as a natural option. This is communicated in a variety of ways. Terms such as “whole,” “...

Margot J. Pollans is 34 and grew up in Boston, MA. She is the Assistant Professor, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and Faculty Director, Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative. Background and education: I have a BA in History &...

he gift will sponsor a two-year pilot of a new Food and Beverage Law Clinic that will provide transactional legal services to farmers, community and grassroots groups, and mission-oriented food and beverage entrepreneurs. The Clinic is part of a...

An expert in the field of food law, Professor Pollans calls for a broader examination of food production before deciding what is healthy for both consumers and the environment. “The difference between natural and unnatural, like the difference...

In “Time” magazine, Professor Czarnezki and author Paul Greenberg published an article calling on the FDA to standardize the term. “For anyone with a deep, enduring faith in the meaning of nature, it may come as something of a...