Comparative Law, Sustainability and Food Safety
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
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.
Expected learning outcomes
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.
Lesson period: Second trimester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second trimester
Course syllabus
The following topics will be covered: 1) the relationship between comparative law and global law; 2) the food legal systems; 3) the food safety and damages in the agro-food supply chains; 4) the circulation of European consumer law and European food safety law in other legal systems; 5) the introduction of novel foods in the EU market; 6) the governance tools of the food market and the contractual rules; 7) the commercial practices in the agri-food chain and the civil protection of the weaker party; 8) culture& law, food choices, halal food; 9) the new ecological sensibilities: the food between bio-diversity needs and environmental sustainability; 10) globalization of the food market, technological innovations (food tech) and sustainable development.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :
- You need to write (by 5 January 2024) an email to Prof. Sabrina Lanni ([email protected]);
- There is no maximum number of eligible students;
- Lessons will start on 8 January 2024 and will take place every Monday and Tuesday from 10.30 to 12.30 through Microsoft Teams
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :
- You need to write (by 5 January 2024) an email to Prof. Sabrina Lanni ([email protected]);
- There is no maximum number of eligible students;
- Lessons will start on 8 January 2024 and will take place every Monday and Tuesday from 10.30 to 12.30 through Microsoft Teams
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific prerequisites
Teaching methods
It's an e-learning course to facilitate the broadest participation of students of the many Milan University Degree courses according to the purposes of the Erasmus + Jean Monnet Actions. It will be realized some classroom exercises carried out by small groups (i.e. 4 students). Practical cases will be dealt with during the lessons, also thanks to the involvement of Stakeholders and other Colleagues .
Teaching Resources
PDF essays and Cases law will be made available through the Ariel site of the course.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Final oral exam according to the Faculty calendar of exam sessions. Attending students will have the opportunity to take one intermediate oral test during February.
Educational website(s)
Professor(s)
Reception:
Friday from 10.00 to 12.00. Students have to write 48 hours in advance an email.
Professor's room (room n. 1) or Microsoft Teams