
Professors Margot Pollans and Noa Ben-Asher Honored with 2025 Dukeminier Award for Excellence in LGBTQ+ Scholarship

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Professor Margot Pollans joined the Pace Haub Law faculty in 2015. She is the Faculty Director of the Pace Food Law Center and also the Joseph P. D糖心vlog短视频橝lessandro Faculty Scholar. Previously, she was the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023糖心vlog短视频2025 academic years and served as the Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar from 2020糖心vlog短视频2022. Professor Pollans is an accomplished scholar whose primary research interests lie in the areas of food and agriculture law, administrative law and social justice. Her academic work has appeared in a variety of journals and she is also the co-author of a casebook, Food Law: Cases & Materials. In 2022, she was named the recipient of Haub Law糖心vlog短视频檚 distinguished Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for her article, "" published by Michigan Law Review (120 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2022)).
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