Seminar: "The Structure and Dynamics of Food Safety Regulation: A Systems Theory Approach" -Timothy D. Lytton

Center for Law, Health and Society at Georgia State University

The Structure and Dynamics of Food Safety Regulation: A Systems Theory Approach

Timothy D. Lytton

Regents’ Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University, Center for Law, Health and Society

Timothy D. Lytton is a Regents’ Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University, where he is affiliated with the Center for Law, Health and Society. His research focuses on civil litigation and the regulation of health and safety. His food safety research covers a variety of “hot” topics, including overcoming conflict of interest in private food safety auditing, using liability insurance to improve food safety compliance on farms, coping with the limits of science in food safety regulation under the watchful eye of federal courts, and filing nuisance lawsuits against concentrated animal feeding operations for the discharge of contaminated manure near fresh produce fields. Lytton is the author of several books, including Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety (University of Chicago Press 2019) Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food (Harvard University Press 2013) Holding Bishops Accountable: How Lawsuits Helped the Catholic Church Confront Clergy Sexual Abuse (Harvard University Press 2008) The editor of Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (University of Michigan Press 2005). Lytton has received grant funding to support his work from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. In recognition for his contributions to the study of civil justice, in 2018. Lytton was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.