Michael Roberts
UCLA Law School
“Trust is the biggest, most important word when it comes to regulating food. ”
Michael T. Roberts is a professor at UCLA Law and the founding Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy. Roberts is a thought leader in a broad range of legal and policy issues from farm to fork in local, national, and global food supply systems. He taught the first food law and policy course in the United States in 2004 and served as the leading force in the development in 2005 of the first scholarly journal – Journal of Food Law and Policy – devoted exclusively to the field.
