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Aaahhh, travel. Let’s dream of July in Rome, experiencing Italy’s food culture and learning Italian food history through the concept of terroir. Study this complex food culture with Robin Derby, Professor of History, UCLA, and Michael Roberts, Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy, observing sustainable food production, tasting local cuisine, and learning about the emergence of international food governance through the twentieth century. Click here for more information.
Happy back to school! Click here to see the Resnick Center’s Fall 2018 Newsletter. Highlights include coverage of the discussion between Resnick Center Executive Director Michael T. Roberts and Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown and UCLA’s Food Studies Certificate Program.
Yesterday, our colleague Eugene Volokh wrote at his blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, about a fascinating case involving the employee of a company that contracted to clean food processing plants. The employee threatened to release some damaging information about a food processing plant at which he had worked and his employer was granted a temporary restraining order to block this release. The court also granted the company’s request to seal the case. Volokh raises some super interesting questions, including whether it is appropriate for a dispute regarding the release of information that may seriously affect the public health to be litigated under seal, and the relevance of the allegation that the person seeking to release the information was looking to extort money in exchange for keeping the information secret.
The case is Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. v. Acosta, and you can read the blog post here.
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