Summer interns in the Food Law and Policy Clinic have
the unique opportunity to engage in action-based learning to gain a deeper
understanding of the complex challenges facing our current food system. Interns
get hands-on experience conducting legal and policy research for individuals,
community groups, and government agencies on a wide range of food law and
policy issues, and are challenged to develop creative legal and policy
solutions to pressing food issues. FLPC interns apply their knowledge from the
law school classroom to real-world situations.
Examples of projects include:
providing policy guidance and advocacy training to state and local food policy
councils, assessing how food safety regulations could be amended to increase
economic opportunities for small local producers, recommending policies to
increase access to healthy food for low-income communities, identifying and
breaking down legal barriers inhibiting small-scale and sustainable food
production, and drafting state and federal legislation to reduce the amount of
wasted food.