Food systems
Law plays a crucial role in achieving food system policy goals and in managing the trade-offs and synergies between them.
Our food system has to accommodate a wide range of policy goals: to be sustainable and just; to ensure food and nutrition security; to deliver safe and healthy food; to safeguard the wellbeing of non-human animals that are part of our diet and/or affected by our agricultural system more broadly; to become increasingly circular; to incorporate technological and digital innovation; to remain, and/or become, economically viable; and to respect the limits of our living environment. Law plays a crucial role in achieving these goals and in managing the trade-offs and synergies between them.
Topics
Within our research theme, we specifically focus on these key areas:
- (EU) Food law
- National Food Laws in Comparative perspective
- Food Justice / Food System Solidarity
- Intellectual property rights
- Public procurement law
- Trade law
- Agricultural law
- Consumer law
- Human health
- Animal law
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Research themes
Environment
We focus on the regulatory challenges of managing the wide range of the public and private actors and actions that shape our social and natural environments
Food systems
Law plays a crucial role in achieving food system policy goals and in managing the trade-offs and synergies between them.
Business and human rights
Legal frameworks seek to maintain economic growth while regulating corporate activities in the face of global political contestation and technological innovations.
Human rights and public health
Our research is driven by using human rights as a lens to explore how the language, ideas, and principles of human rights can inform the transformation towards a more just and more sustainable world.
Law Group
The Law Group, led by Louis Kotzé, focusses on legal solutions to social problems, including those studied in life sciences domains.