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Katya Cronin serves as Associate Professor of Fundamentals of Lawyering at The George Washington University Law School, with additional affiliations at the Global Food Institute and the Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition Security at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her dual academic focus bridges legal pedagogy and interdisciplinary food law research.
Her research interests encompass professional identity formation, lawyer wellbeing, values-based legal practice, and the intersection of food law, health law, agricultural law, and environmental law. Cronin's scholarship examines environmental toxins in food, food additives, nutrition security, and regenerative agriculture through legal frameworks, while her legal education research appears in leading journals including the Journal of Legal Education and the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.
Her recent publications (2022-2024) demonstrate consistent output in both domains, with three 2024 articles addressing systemic food safety regulation failures and transformative approaches to legal education. The publications reveal growing emphasis on connecting professional values with legal practice while addressing critical gaps in food safety oversight.
- Center for Justice and Accountability's Partner in Justice award for representation of a Somali law professor tortured for human rights advocacy
Prior to academia, Cronin practiced for over a decade at Latham & Watkins and Tucker Ellis, handling Supreme Court cases including Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, constitutional law matters, complex commercial litigation, and medical/pharmaceutical liability cases. Her pro bono work included overturning wrongful convictions through the Michigan Innocence Clinic and representing death-row inmates. As a native Bulgarian, she maintains international perspectives in both her teaching and research.
