About the Competition
The Global Center for Legal Innovation on Food Environments’ Student Writing Competition fosters research and scholarship around healthy food law and policy issues — particularly the prevention and control of diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
We are pleased to announce the topic of the 2025 competition: “Food Environments and the Law.” Eligible applicants should explore their paper topic as it relates to one or more areas of the law (including but not limited to international human rights law, constitutional law, and legal human rights frameworks) and are encouraged to think creatively about legal concepts and theories.
The Global Center Student Writing Competition is designed to stimulate research and conversation around emerging issues in food law and policy, examining how the law can play an important role in improving food environments to prevent diet-related NCDs.
We welcome submissions on the following topics, including:
- Access to affordable, healthy, and nutritious foods
- Front-of-package labeling
- Fiscal policies and measures, including taxation
- Healthy public food procurement measures and policies
- Healthy food systems
- Restrictions on unhealthy food and beverage marketing
- Regulation of corporate social responsibility
- Regulation of the school food environment
- Lessons learned from COVID-19 on the relationship between food environments and the law
Deadline: February 5, 2027
