Comparative Law, Sustainability and Food Safety

The course is part of the activities organized for the Jean Monnet Chair ENFASIS (European Novel Foods Agreement and Sustainable Intercultural Systems) and specifically addresses food-related problems in the framework of the different consumers' rights, such as those relating to food safety, cultural identities, religious freedoms, as well as those rights linked to the environment and eco-systems protection through sustainable consumption choices and inter-generational duties. The course aims to convey to the student the knowledge of the problems and possible solutions that emerge regarding food topics in the context of the European Union, without neglecting the demands and solutions offered by the different legal systems, as well as their comparison beyond a European vision of law. At the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze the most relevant aspects of global and comparative food law.

At the end of the course, thanks to the traditional lectures, group exercises and flipped classrooms, the student: a) will have acquired cultural, disciplinary and methodological skills; b) will have strengthened communication skills allowing him/her to master the issues related to sustainability and food safety, especially regarding to the novel foods (from insects to nanomaterials) and international spread of the same; c) will have developed a critical vision and an independent judgment of the legal phenomena linked to globalization of the food consumption sector and to international trade.