This month, Michael and Diana talk with Professor Ernesto Hernández-López from the Chapman University Fowler School of Law about a recent opinion piece he wrote for Al Jazeera titled “Drop it America and Canada: A Corn Clash with Mexico helps no one.”  Professor Hernández, Michael, and Diana discuss the background for this piece, what is at stake in trade policy and politics, and implications for food law and policy.

Ernesto Hernández-López is Professor of Law at the Chapman University Fowler School of Law.

Michael T. Roberts is the Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law.

Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law.

You can find Professor Hernández’s article, “Drop it America and Canada: A Corn Clash with Mexico helps no one” here. 

 Some other work by Professor Hernández is here:

 Opinion Pieces

·      “Why Seed Companies Fear México,” INTER PRESS SERVICE: NEWS AGENCY, Nov. 18, 2021

·      “The Death of Neoliberal Corn,” LATINO REBELS, Oct. 19, 2021

·      “Fighting GMO Corn, for Mexico’s Soul,” LATINO REBELS, Sept. 16, 2020

Scholarly Pieces

·      “Racializing Trade in Corn: México Fights Maíz Imports and GMOs,” 25 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW (JIEL) (2022)

 ·      “GMO Corn, México, and Coloniality,” 22 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT AND TECHNOLOGY LAW 724-783 (2020)

·      “Border Brutalism,” 46 Fordham Int'l L.J. 213 (2023). 
 

 A link to the book by Michael Fakhri, Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law, mentioned by Professor Hernández is here.