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Pace Food Law Center

The Food Law Center at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University supports the transition to a just and sustainable food system, by providing legal services and advocacy, scholarship, and student education. Through our Food and Farm Business Law Clinic, we address the unmet legal needs of farmers, food and beverage entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen food sovereignty in disadvantaged communities, foster the growth of alternative models of food production and distribution, and promote the emergence of a more sustainable climate-friendly food system.

About the Food Law Center

Meet Our Faculty

What We Do

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Food law professor with students in clinic

Legal Services and Advocacy

We provide direct transactional legal services to farmers and food businesses, offer focused legal training, and advocate for systemic policy changes at the local, state, regional, and federal levels.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law professor speaking to a classroom full of students

Scholarship

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is home to the largest food law faculty in the country. Through faculty and student scholarship in food law, we seek to advance understanding of the role of law in shaping the food system.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law students looking at fresh crops on a farm

Student Learning

Our students learn and practice food law through client pro bono work in our Food and Farm Business Law Clinic, in addition to food law coursework, independent research projects, and externships.

Students from Food and farm clinic in field at farm

Food and Farm Business Law Clinic

The Food and Farm Business Law Clinic provides pro bono transactional legal services to small farm businesses, artisan food manufacturers, craft beverage entrepreneurs, and related nonprofit organizations.

Learn about the Food and Farm Business Law Clinic

“My passion for agriculture issues is deeply rooted. I grew up on a seedstock Simmental cattle operation in Shelbyville, Illinois where I worked on my family’s farm. The education I received at Pace Haub Law really brought it all together for me."

Cari Rincker ’07

Lawyer, Educator, Author, Podcast Host

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Jonathan Brown, professor at Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law

"The Food and Farm Business Law Clinic’s work touches on multiple areas of law, centered around “transactional” corporate practice, to help our clients."

Professor Jonathan Brown

Director, Food and Farm Business Law Clinic

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Sustainable Business Law Hub Partner Donna Lanzetta, Founder and CEO of Manna Fish Farms, Inc

“It’s time to build science-based support for ocean mariculture proving that protein production is possible in the ocean in balance with the environment.”

Donna Lanzetta ’86

CEO & Founder of Manna Fish Farms, Inc.

Read Donna's Story