Rate My Professor Emily Broad Leib

Emily M. Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she serves as Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and as Founder and Faculty Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, the nation’s first law school clinic focused on legal and policy solutions to challenges in the food system. She received a B.A. in History from Columbia University in 2003 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2008, graduating cum laude. Prior to joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Broad Leib served as the Joint Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where she directed the Delta Directions Consortium, a group dedicated to improving public health and economic development in the Mississippi Delta region; she continues to supervise the Harvard Law School Mississippi Delta Project. Her work centers on community-led food system change, food waste reduction, food access, food is medicine interventions, and sustainable food production. Broad Leib’s scholarly publications include articles in the California Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Food & Drug Law Journal, and Journal of Food Law & Policy. In 2015, she received one of the inaugural Harvard Drew Faust Climate Change Solution Fund awards for her project on reducing food waste to address climate change, and her food waste policy initiatives now engage partners in more than thirty countries. She co-founded the Academy of Food Law and Policy and served as its Founding Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2016 to 2019. Broad Leib has hosted the Food Law Student Leadership Summit and supports the National Food Law Student Network; her work has received coverage in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TIME, and she has appeared on CBS This Morning, CNN, and MSNBC.