Submit Abstracts for 3rd edition of the Conference on Canadian Food Law and Policy
Posted: April 11, 2018
Categories: Events / Food in the News / GoodFoodBites
Call for abstracts
The Legal Research Chair in Food Diversity and Security and Cain Lamarre are pleased to collaborate to welcome the 3rd edition of the Conference on Canadian Food Law and Policy in Quebec city, from September 25 to 27, 2018. Experts, academics, practitioners and Canadian agrifood stakeholders will meet at Laval University to discuss the topic of innovations in agrifood law.
In this context, we invite practitioners, academics, policy makers, lawyers, students and other innovative thinkers to submit proposals for individual papers which consider agrifood law as an important vector of innovation and social change related to the following themes:
- Innovations in food safety;
- Social innovations and social justice for better food security;– The challenges and opportunities of national and international agrifood trade (AIT, NAFTA, CETA, WTO);
- Health and consumer protection;
- Food advertising to children;
- Ethics in aboriginal food security and sovereignty research;
- The challenges posed by the relationships between food and climate change.
Proposals, not exceeding 300 words, must be accompanied by an updated curriculum vitae and submitted before April 16, 2018 by completing the form at the following link: Abstract submission form. The abstracts will be selected by members of the scientific committee of the 3rd edition of the Conference on Canadian Food Law and Policy. Decisions will be communicated to applicants during the week of April 29, 2018. Conference registration fees will be covered by the organization for the speakers whose abstracts have been selected. However, transportation and accommodation costs are the responsibility of the speakers.
For any information request, please contact: canfoodlaw@gmail.com.
No late or incomplete submissions will be accepted.
The Legal Research Chair in Food Diversity and Security and Cain Lamarre are excited to continue the tradition of excellence of this conference in collaboration with the organizers of previous years and to welcome participants to Quebec City in September.
INNOVATIONS en droit de l’agroalimentaire
3e Colloque annuel canadien en droit et politiques publiques agroalimentaires
3rd Annual Canadian Food Law & Policy Conference
Pavillon Desjardins de l’Université Laval ⋮ 2018.09.25-27