CALL FOR PAPERS:
FOOD LAW: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
XXV
BIENNIAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE
ITALIAN
ASSOCIATION OF COMPARATIVE LAW (AIDC)
UNIVERSITY
OF PARMA
MAY 23-25, 2019
DEADLINE JANUARY 7, 2019
Parma – Teatro
Farnese
The
Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC) opens an international Call for
Papers on the subject
FOOD LAW: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
I.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The colloquium intends
to put the focus, from a comparative
perspective, on the following topics to which a specific session will
be devoted:
1.
Models and institutions for agri-food law
2.
Food culture and its relationship with
food regulation
3.
Agri-food chain and markets
4.
Origins, denominations, IP Rights:
Treaties and transplants
5.
Controls in international trade: sovereignty,
diversity, uniformity, barriers
6.
Food education/Food disorders
7.
Animal rights
8.
Food and multiculturality (Religious
constraints, vegetarian, new foods)
9.
Criminal law implications
10.
Food, water, environment and sustainable
development
Candidates should indicate – in their
submission – in which session they wish to present their paper.
It is suggested that submissions should
take into account the tendency of circulation of legal models in agri-food law,
which expresses a growing trend to share solutions and answers on the basis of common
experiences, both by importing models and external sources within the internal legal
systems and by providing more general, or global, responses that can have
effect well beyond the national or the regional boundaries.
II.
TO WHOM THE CALL FOR
PAPERS IS ADDRESSED
AIDC organizes on a biennial basis a “younger
comparatists colloquium” (the last one, this year, was held in Bergamo) open to
PhD candidates and holders, lecturers, adjunct professors; and the ordinary biennial colloquium (the present
is the 25th), generally open to full and associate professors.
Therefore, the selection committee will prefer papers presented by full and associate professors,
although it may make a limited amount of exceptions.
Papers should be in Italian or English, and may be
presented in either language.
Simultaneous translation will not be provided.
III.
ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS
The proposal must be submitted by January 7, 2019 indicating in which session they wish to present their paper. Acceptance will be
communicated by the end of January. Within
10 days from acceptance, the participation fee (€ 70) must be paid. If not,
acceptance will be forfeited and the selection committee will move on to other
candidates. This requirement is essential in order to avoid that no-show of
some rapporteurs preclude the possibility to others to present their papers.
The Colloquium will be organized in plenary opening
(Thursday, May 23) and closing (Saturday, May 25) sessions (with invited
speakers). And parallel sessions (Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25) divided
according to topics. It is expected that up to 40 papers will be presented in a
time slot not exceeding 20 minutes per speaker, followed by a 10 minutes
Q&A session.
IV.
OTHER ASPECTS
The origins of the University of Parma – as those of
many other Italian academic institutions – date back to the middle-ages. Under
the Farnese family – to whom several illustrious popes belonged – Parma and its
university became one of the centres of cultural life in Italy and Europe.
During the Enlightenment and the XIX Century it has listed among its faculty
some of the most important names in sciences, humanities and law. Since 1988
annexed to the Law Department is the prestigious European College, aimed at
preparing post-graduates for the many EU institutions. Parma is also the
headquarters of the European Food Safety Agency, which plays a decisive role in
many of the topics which will be examined in the XXVth AIDC Colloquium.
V.
HOW TO SUBMIT A
PROPOSAL
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail at aidc.parma2019@gmail.com in
Word format, following this order:
a) author(s)
b) affiliation
c) e-mail
address
d) title of
abstract
e) body of
abstract (apx 250 words)
Abstract file
should be entitled: Family Name_Last Name.doc
VI.
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings
of the Colloquium will be published on the “Studies in Law and Social Sciences”
open-access Series, published by the Roma TrE-Press, under the auspices of the
Law Department.
Authors may also publish their paper on other
periodicals, in particular on the on-line periodical “Comparative Law Review”, sponsored by AIDC, will devote a special
issue to the proceedings of the Colloquium. Papers in Italian may also be submitted
for publication to “Diritto pubblico
comparato ed europeo”, and to “Comparazione
e diritto civile”, the other two leading Italian comparative law reviews.
