Peter Barton Hutt
Hutt is senior counsel in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling LLP specializing in food and drug law. He previously served as chief counsel for the Food and Drug Administration during 1971-1975. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine since its founding in 1971. He is co-author of the casebook used to teach food and drug law throughout the country, and has published more than 175 book chapters and articles on food and drug law and health policy. Since 1994 he has taught a full course on this subject each year during Winter Term at Harvard Law School and in 1998 he taught the same course during Spring Term at Stanford Law School.
Hutt graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School and obtained a Master of Laws degree in Food and Drug Law from NYU Law School.