Importing the Right to Food
Speakers
SMITA NARULA
Smita Narula is Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law at Pace Law School. From 2008-2014 she served as legal advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
JOSHUA LOHNES
Joshua Lohnes is Research Assistant Professor of Geography at West Virginia University. He directs the work of the Food Justice Lab at the Center for Resilient Communities.
Moderators:
KERILYN SCHEWEL
Kerilyn Schewel is a Board Member of COMIT. She is co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and Lecturing Fellow in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research examines the relationship between migration and development, with a current focus on immobility, rural livelihoods, and climate change. Her book, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
LEE MILLER
Lee Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at COMIT. He is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, where he teaches on agricultural and environmental law. Miller also has amassed expertise in environmental advocacy, policy innovation, and coalition-building in U.S. food and farm movements. At the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Miller coordinated a multi-law school farm bill research project promoting agricultural sustainability and justice.
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