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Selected Works

Melissa Mortazavi

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Tainted: Food, Identity, And The Search For Dignitary Redress, Melissa D. Mortazavi Dec 2015

Tainted: Food, Identity, And The Search For Dignitary Redress, Melissa D. Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

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Consuming Identities: Law, School Lunches, And What It Means To Be American, Melissa Mortazavi Aug 2015

Consuming Identities: Law, School Lunches, And What It Means To Be American, Melissa Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

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Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act And The Farm Bill, Melissa D. Mortazavi Aug 2015

Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act And The Farm Bill, Melissa D. Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

On December 15, 2010, President Obama signed the Healthy Hunger- Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA)1 into law. It was hailed as a bipartisan success and a significant reform of childhood nutrition policy. Indeed, on its surface the law appears to make a significant shift away from the food paradigm of the past. However, upon closer examination, it fails to unwind the tangled connections between domestic eating habits and longstanding farm subsidies. This Article breaks new ground in several ways: First, it is one of the first essays in the emerging and underexplored field of food law, a crosssection of …

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Tort As Democracy: Lessons From The Food Wars, Melissa D. Mortazavi Dec 2014

Tort As Democracy: Lessons From The Food Wars, Melissa D. Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

This Article develops alternative emerging theories regarding the function of tort in American civil society. Often, scholars and policymakers evaluate the tort system in terms of compensation, loss allocation, and risk management. This focus overlooks an important modern function of tort; in the context of the modern administrative state, tort is a vital player in the democratic deliberative process. Tort suits bring forth new ideas, force fact-finding, and increase communication amongst public and private institutional actors to develop sound and legitimate law and policy.
Perhaps nowhere is this more obvious today than with the current boom of food litigation. Lawsuits …

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A Place At The Table: What Food Litigation Tells Us About The Function Of Tort Law, Melissa Mortazavi Oct 2014

A Place At The Table: What Food Litigation Tells Us About The Function Of Tort Law, Melissa Mortazavi

Melissa Mortazavi

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