Baylen J. Linnekin

Baylen Linnekin, a licensed attorney and food writer who holds an LL.M. in agricultural and food law, is the founder and executive director of Keep Food Legal, a Washington, DC-based nonpartisan grassroots nonprofit membership organization that advocates for food freedom—the right of every American to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, cook, eat, and drink the foods of their own choosing.

Linnekin’s writing on food and law has appeared in the Chapman University Law Review, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Northeastern University Law Journal (forthcoming), Nexus Journal of Law & Policy (forthcoming), Journal of Wine Economics, Reason magazine, Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere. He is co-author of a chapter on food and the law in the Routledge International Handbook to Food Studies, a forthcoming academic textbook, and author of the entry on “food bans” in the forthcoming second edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. He has presented his research on food and food law at University of Chicago School of Law, Harvard University School of Law, Tulane University School of Law, Chapman University School of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Suffolk University School of Law, Boston University, University of Arkansas, American University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, La Cocina’s National Street Food Conference, and elsewhere.