Episode 4: Jamie Baxter on Food Law Education
Welcome to the Food Court is back after a long holiday and work period. While we were away, we won Best New Blog at the 2015 Canadian Law Blog Awards, which is really exciting. Congratulations to all the other winners and many thanks to the folks at lawblogs.ca for putting together the annual awards.
On this episode of our now award-winning podcast, we're joined by Jamie Baxter, a professor at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University to speak about food law in Canadian legal education. Jamie's developed an interest in food law at an academic and a personal level. That's a good thing, because no programs currently exist in Canada. Europe, sure. In the United States, certainly. But in Canada? Nothing.
We sit down and consider how legal education is changing in Canada, how law students are seeking different things than they have historically, and how developing a food law program is a real opportunity for academics, students, and practitioners alike.
Here are the food law and policy programs referenced in this episode: Harvard's Food Law and Policy Clinic, UCLA's Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, Vermont Law School's Agricultural and Food Law Program, Michigan State University's Institute for Food Law and Regulation, Drake Law School's Agricultural and Food Law Certificate.
And here's the link to Alberta's Bill 6 - it has a name and is in force - the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act.