The Center for Informed Food Choices and Loyola Law School present
Date: Friday, October
21, 2005
Time: 1-5pm
Location: Robinson Courtroom, Girardi Advocacy Center
On the campus of Loyola Law School
919 Albany Street, Los Angeles, CA
Admission: There is no
charge but an RSVP would be appreciated. Please call or email
Bridget Klink @ 213-736-1407 or Bridget.Klink@lls.edu
With rising childhood obesity rates, public health advocates are becoming increasingly concerned with the impact of junk food marketing to children. Yet legal questions loom large about how to address the issue. Come to this cutting-edge symposium to hear leading experts from around the country speak on such critical topics as: the commercial speech doctrine, industry self-regulation, litigation as a tool, and lessons learned from the tobacco wars.
View speakers and panels:
(NOTE: all presenter videos require your computer to already have
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Welcome and Introduction [View]
Panel 1 [View]
Panel 2 [View]
Panel 3 [View]
Closing [View]
Scheduled speakers and topics include:
Susan Linn, Judge Baker
Children's Center, Harvard Medical School
Beyond Commercials: Food Marketing to Children in the 21st
Century [View]
Tracy Westen, Center for Governmental Studies and former
deputy director, Federal Trade Commission
Historical Perspective on FTC Rulemaking and Why it Failed
[View]
Angela Campbell,
Georgetown University Law Center
Prohibiting Product Placement and the Use of Characters
to Market Junk Food to Children [View]
David Yosifon,
Rutgers University School of Law
Resisting Deep Capture: The Commercial Speech Doctrine and
Junk Food Advertising to Children [View]
Ellen Fried, Rudd Center for Food Policy
and Obesity, Yale University
Assessing Effectiveness of Self-Regulation: A Case Study of
the Children's Advertising Review Unit [View]
Stephen Gardner,
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Litigation as a Tool in Food Advertising to Children
[View]
Jason Smith,
Public Health Advocacy Institute
A Public Health Approach to the Commercial Speech Doctrine [View]
Randolph Kline, Public
Health Law Program
Commercial Speech and Advertising: Lessons
Learned from the Tobacco Wars [View]
Amanda Shaffer,
Occidental College
Changing the Food Environment: Community Engagement
Strategies and Policy Tools that Address the Influence of
Marketing to Kids [View]
Michele Simon,
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Can Food Companies be Trusted to Self-Regulate? An Analysis
of Corporate Deception and Lobbying for Junk Food in Schools
[View]
For more information contact Michele Simon, Symposium Coordinator, at (510) 465-0322 or Michele@informedeating.org. For updates visit the Center for Informed Food Choices.