The Joy of Food and Drug Law with Peter Barton Hutt

In this month’s very special episode of Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Peter Barton Hutt, who is one of the premier figures in the modern development of food and drug law, and who has significantly shaped the field.  Hutt is senior counsel at Covington and Burling LLP; he was Chief Counsel for the Food and Drug Administration from 1971 to 1975; he is co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 1st edition 1980, 2d edition 1991, 3d edition 2007, 4th edition 2014, 5th edition 2022); he has taught Food and Drug Law annually at Harvard Law since 1994; and he is the author of more than 175 book chapters and articles on Food and Drug Law and on health policy.  Here, Miuchael, Diana, and Peter discuss Hutt’s leadership at FDA and some of the major obstacles and milestones he encountered, his teaching and his impact on his many students, his scholarship and how it has shaped the world of food and drug law, and his practice. 

Peter Barton Hutt is a senior counsel in the Washington, DC law firm of Covington & Burling LLP.

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 Mr. Hutt’s bio and representative publications here.  

You can find the latest version of his Food and Drug Law casebook here.