Andrea Freeman

Andrea Freeman is the Second Century Chair Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, author, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections between critical race theory and food policy, health, and consumer credit. She is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Metropolitan 2024) and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. Skimmed is currently in development for a documentary with Topic Pictures. Her work has been featured on ABC News, CBS News, NPR, the Washington Post, New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, USA Today, The Root, and more. She teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Race, Culture, and Law in the U.S. and the UK, Food Law and Policy, and Comparative Social Justice and Constitutional Law. She previously taught at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, where she was a Carlsmith Ball Faculty Scholar and at the UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, and California Western School of Law, and served as a Distinguished Scholar of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School.