Food, Agriculture & Environmental Law
The focus of this guide is the intersection of U.S. food, agriculture and environmental law.
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Titles Recently Acquired
Animals Lives Matter: The Continuing Quest for Justice
Climate Change, Cattle, and the International Legal Order
Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene
Legal Recognition of Animal Sentience: Principles, Approaches and Applications
Books & Reports
Additional materials on the food, agriculture, environment and related topics can be located using JACOB, the Library's catalog.
Agriculture and Food Handbook by Provides a comprehensive review of the regulatory, antitrust, and consumer protection issues that arise in the agriculture and food industries.
Environmental Resilience and Food Law: Agrobiodiversity and Agroecology by Contextualizes how various legal frameworks address agrobiodiversity and agroecology around the globe.
Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture: Reinventing Agrarian Justice by Explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture.
Food Justice by Recounts the history of food injustices and describes current efforts to change the system, including community gardens and farmer training in Holyoke, Massachusetts, youth empowerment through the Rethinkers in New Orleans, farm-to-school programs across the country, and the Los Angeles school system's elimination of sugary soft drinks from its cafeterias.
Food Regulation: Law, Science, Policy, and Practice, 2d ed. by Overviews the federal statutes, regulations, and regulatory agencies concerned with food regulation.
International Food Law by Discusses the relations among fields of law that are rarely discussed together - food law and the environment, food law and human rights, food law and animal welfare.
Regulation by Proxy: How the USDA Relies on Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Intermediaries to Oversee Organic Food in the U.S. by Catalogues and assesses the intermediaries that are critical to organic certification, including the National Organic Standards Board, accredited certifying agents, organic inspectors, the California State Organic Program, the Accredited Certifiers Association, the International Organic Inspectors Association, and material review organizations, and discusses their contributions to organic standards development, administration, and enforcement.
Treatises
Written by legal scholars and practitioners, treatises provide current, in-depth analysis and commentary.
- Environmental Law Practice Guide
- Environmental Enforcement: Civil and Criminal
- Law of Environmental Protection
- Law of Water Rights & Resources
- RCRA & Superfund: A Practice Guide
- Treatise on Environmental Law
- Waters and Water Rights
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports
GAO is an independent, nonpartisan auditing arm of Congress. GAO monitors how federal agencies spend and reports on how well government programs and policies are meeting their objectives.
- GAO Reports
Examples:
- Agriculture and Food
Other Publications
- Amber Waves(USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS))
A monthly, online journal providing research and analysis on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America. - National Academies Press (NAP): Agriculture PublicationsPublishing arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Nonpartisan, objective reports cover a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine. The National Research Council is the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- National Academies Press (NAP): Environment and Environmental Studies PublicationsPublishing arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Nonpartisan, objective reports cover a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine. The National Research Council is the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Related Guides
- Clean Water Act (CWA)(GW Law Library)
- U.S. Environmental Law(GW Law Library)