View Livestream Here Welcome to the LIVESTREAM of the Harvard Food Law Society’s Raw Milk Debate. This link will become active at 6:15 PM on the evening of the event, February 16, 2012. The actual event will begin at 7:15 PM, at which time the stream will go live. You will need to have [...]
Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:15 – 8:45 PM Langdell South, HLS ***Open to the Public*** At one time, everyone drank raw milk. But with the invention of pasteurization and its attendant safety benefits, consumption of raw milk in this country almost completely disappeared. In fact, in many states it is illegal to sell raw milk. [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 6:30 – 8:30 PM Wasserstein Pub, HLS Join us for conversation and drinks with like-minded students from MIT and Tufts for our first ever joint social hour. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a beautiful relationship and of more collaboration to come! All are welcome!
November 15, 2011 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Pound 102 Harvard Law School Mark Winne’s second book, “Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture” takes on the universal struggle between human freedom and authority in its relationship to food. From urban gardening heroes in Cleveland, to feisty [...]
November 14, 2011 5:30 – 8 p.m. Austin 100 Harvard Law School 5:30 Panel on Sustainable & Responsible Food Production 6:00 Panel on Producing the Special 6:30 Premiere Heirloom Meals’ Thanksgiving 7:30 Dessert & Coffee Hosted by the Harvard Food Law Society, the Environmental Law Society, and the Environmental Law Review, the PBS special “Heirloom [...]
October 31, 2011 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Pound Hall 100 Harvard Law School The mental and physical health of the Western world has waxed and waned over the years according to environmental conditions. In the United States, we have come to an unprecedented time of plentiful food and relative peace on the home front, [...]
October 24, 2011 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Austin North Harvard Law School Food Fight (www.foodfightthedoc.com) is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness. Join us for a screening of this lively documentary [...]
October 21, 2011 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Harvard Law School TEDxHarvardLaw will focus on food policy and public health, with a specific focus on legal and policy approaches to increasing the supply and demand of healthy foods. Dr. Robert Lustig will kick off the event with a lecture on “The Sugar Epidemic: Policy vs. Politics,” [...]
October 20, 2011 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Harvard Law School Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, will argue that it is time for a paradigm shift in obesity science and policy, away from personal responsibility and toward public health. His presentation will elaborate on his contention that [...]
October 12, 2011 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Hauser 104 Harvard Law School Join us for a conversation with Jack A. Bobo, Senior Advisor for Biotechnology in the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Mr. Bobo also serves as the Chief of the Department’s Biotechnology and Textile Trade Policy [...]
