Call for papers: Advertising and kids

April 20, 2005

The Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review is organizing a symposium on food advertising to children. No, not how to do it, but the legal and social issues involved in it.

Organizer Michelle Simon of the Center for Informed Food Choices—an outfit dedicated to combating the “industrial food economy”—is looking for 7-8 articles, with panel discussions both in Shakeytown and up at UC-Hastings. Click on the link for the call for papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS

I am writing to request your assistance on an exciting project. I have been asked by the editors of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (at Loyola Law School) to put together a symposium issue on the topic of food advertising to children. While much as been written on this subject, not enough has been done in the way of legal analysis; that is the purpose of this project, to create a better understanding of the various options for regulation, among advocates and lawyers alike.

The issue will consist of 7-8 articles, mostly of the scholarly length. I am told that with footnotes, articles usually come in around 25,000-35,000 words. I will also include a few commentaries of any reasonable length. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

– Federal Trade Commission regulation (including history)
– First amendment issues: commercial speech doctrine and beyond
– Lessons learned from regulating tobacco and alcohol ads to kids
– Regulation in other countries: can the US emulate others?
– Can anything be done at the state level?
– Local applications: restricting marketing in schools, zoning laws
– Industry self-regulation: Children’s Advertising Review Unit
– Litigation as a tool: consumer protection statutes

Papers will be due by August 1, 2005. I have a small budget to pay an honorarium to authors for full-length articles. In addition, I am planning two live panel discussions on the results of the writing, one in Los Angeles and the other in San Francisco (At UC, Hastings College of the Law, where I am teaching Health Policy) sometime in the fall, probably in October. While authors are not required to be part of these events to submit articles, it will add another exciting dimension to your participation, as I really want to try and bridge the gap between advocates and lawyers on this topic. Unfortunately, I have no budget for travel expenses, but you can certainly use the honorarium for that purpose. It’s also possible that not all participants in the panel discussion will have submitted a paper, so if you are only interested in being on the panel, feel free to contact me about that as well.

Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested and post to any relevant list-serves. I require a brief letter of inquiry prior to being selected and confirmed as an author. The letter should explain your topic and experience in the field. Please also send a CV. If you happen to be in the middle of writing a relevant article and are in need of a publication, feel free to send a draft. All materials should be sent me via email, if possible.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks for your help and I look forward to sharing the results of this exciting and much-needed project!

Michele Simon JD, MPH
Founder and Director
Center for Informed Food Choices
PO Box 16053
Oakland, CA 94610
510-465-0322

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