Deadline for submissions: 1st June 2024
SPECIAL ISSUE
The Brazilian Journal of International Law, a SCOPUS-indexed review, invites submissions for a special issue on “International Food Law” to be published in October 2024. The issue will be edited by Professors Marcílio Toscano Franca Filho (Federal University of Paraíba) and Ardyllis Alves Soares (University Centre of Brasilia).
The relationships between food, flavor, taste, palate and law are as old as they are broad. For many centuries, legal norms have been responsible for regulating our ways of eating, drinking, producing food and consuming it, including rules on health protection, labelling, geographical demarcations, authenticity, international trade, food safety, human rights to food, religion (kosher and halal foods) and gastronomic cultural heritage. Private international law, in turn, in addition to many types of contracts on the production, consumption and transport of food, also deals with the “duty of food”. In Europe and the United States, an autonomous branch of Law called Food Law has long been well established, a transdisciplinary field located somewhere between Economic Law, Administrative Law, International Law and Consumer Law. It is also important to mention international organizations related to specific products, such as the “Association Internationale des Juristes pour le Droit de la Vigne et du Vin” (AIDV), founded in 1985 to analyze legal issues relating to the international wine trade. All these circumstances denote the current nature of the debate on Law & Food and legitimize the production of a Dossier on “Food and International Law”, in the Brazilian Journal of International Law, which could host texts by Brazilian and foreign colleagues on the following topics:
– Human Right to Food
– Food safety
– Labeling, risks, precautions and traceability
– New Foods (insects, flowers, GMOs, etc.) and international regulation
– Intellectual property and food
– ESG and international food trade
– International regulation of certain foods in kind such as sugar, coffee, wine, spirits and cheese
– International protection of food consumers
– SDGs and food
– Climate change and food
– The protection of animals
– Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
– International organizations with influence on the agri-food sector: FAO, UNESCO, WHO, Codex Alimentarius, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Important remarks:
– Only International Law and Comparative Law approaches will be considered. National or majorly national approaches won’t be considered.
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