Description
CLINICAL DIRECTOR, RESNICK PROGRAM FOR FOOD LAW AND POLICY
START DATE: JULY 1, 2016
ABOUT THE RESNICK PROGRAM
The Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy (“Resnick Program”) is dedicated to studying and advancing solutions for improving the modern food system. Covering a wide range of local, national, and global food law and policy topics and issues, the program seeks solutions in support of a food system that embodies the values of transparency, accountability, and equity and that yields improved health and sustainability outcomes for all.
Leveraging our location in Los Angeles — an unrivaled global capital of diverse food cultures and consumers, in a state that grows more food than anywhere else in the world — the Program examines the ways in which the modern food system shapes consumers’ physical, economic, social and environmental health. More information about the program is available at our website: www.law.ucla.edu/Resnick.
ABOUT THE FOOD LAW AND POLICY CLINIC
The Resnick Program plans to launch a Food Law and Policy Clinic during the 2016-2017 academic year. The Food Law and Policy Clinic will be aimed at both student development and creating on the ground impacts. The clinic’s programmatic mission will be to facilitate sufficient access to socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable food and to improve food environments particularly for low income populations and marginalized communities. To achieve this goal, the program will provide assistance to groups who: 1) seek to expand healthy food access and improve food environments, and 2) are engaged in work that supports transition to sustainable food production and equitable distribution. The Clinic will train approximately eight to16 students per year (depending on whether the clinic runs one or two semesters) and focus on developing student skills, creative problem solving, professional responsibility, and an understanding of local government law and food law and policy issues.
To view the full position announcement and to apply, visit the UCLA recruitment webpage.