Event

Food Futures Roundtable: Reconciling Security and Sovereignty

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:00to13:00
Chancellor Day Hall Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16), 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
Price: 
Free. 30$ for lawyers seeking CLE hours.

Part of the Innovation Week series of events, which this year focuses mainly on food.

Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, will introduce the session and speak about reconciling the paradigms of the food security approach and the food sovereignty approach (video capsule). A panel of speakers will follow.

Speakers:

o Konstantia Koutouki, Professeure titulaire, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal

o Smita Narula, Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law, Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law

o Sarah Berger Richardson, Schulich Teaching Fellow at the Schulich Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University

The session will be moderated by Nandini Ramanujam.

A request for accreditation for 2 hours of continuing legal education for jurists has been made to a recognized provider.

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