About Us
Conference Organizing Team
The 2022 Conference Organizing Committee is made up of lawyers, academics, students and civil society actors from across Canada. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at conference@foodlaw.ca.
Victoria Baylis
Victoria Baylis recently completed her articles at a Vancouver-based litigation firm, and will be continuing on as an associate. Before obtaining her JD from the Peter A. Allard School of Law, she completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of British Columbia, majoring in biology. When she made the leap to law, she brought along her passion for a more just and sustainable food system. During her JD, she worked as a summer law student for West Coast Environmental Law and was an active member of UBC’s Animal Justice Chapter. She also worked as a clinician for the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program, and Rise Women’s Legal Centre helping marginalized folks access legal services.
Sarah Berger Richardson
Sarah Berger Richardson is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section) of the University of Ottawa where she teaches food law and policy, administrative law, and civil liability. She is President and co-founder of the Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy and a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Her research focuses on the regulation of the agri-food sector, with a particular emphasis on farmed animals and the meat processing sector.
Don Buckingham
Dr. Don Buckingham has served as AAFC legal counsel, Chair of the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal and CEO of an agriculture and food think-tank. He continues to serve at home and aboard through various volunteer and consulting roles involving agriculture, food and the environment. In November 2021, Don was inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame for his pioneering work developing and teaching agriculture and food law in Canada. Oh, and he loves a great meal. Let's eat.
Marsha S. Cadogan
Dr. Marsha Simone Cadogan is an international intellectual property rights lawyer with expertise in trademarks, geographical indications (food and non-food based), design rights and copyright law and policy. Other aspects of her work include emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, blockchains and 3D printing automation) interface with intellectual property law, preferential free trade agreements and the direction of IP laws and, international law theories and sustainable development. She has a PhD in intellectual property rights and is called to the Bar of Ontario. She is also the Canadian representative on AIPPI's (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights) Standing Committee on Geographical Indications.
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Camille Coleman
Camille Coleman recently completed her first year of law school at The University of Western Ontario, after spending four years at Queen’s University majoring in Political Studies. Camille’s motivation to enter into the legal field was rooted in her passion for volunteer work at Queen’s that tackled social injustices, namely initiatives that focused on the unspoken issue of food insecurity on campus. At Western, she is a member of the Human Rights Law Student Society, where she served as the club’s first-year representative last year.
Patricia Galvao-Ferreira
Dr. Patrícia Galvão Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor, where she also serves as the Academic Director of the Transnational Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Dr. Galvão Ferreira is cross appointed to the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) at UWindsor. She specializes in transnational environmental law and justice and law and development, with particular focus on climate change and sustainable development (including sustainable food systems). Dr. Galvão Ferreira has published and presented extensively on environmental justice and climate justice, including on equity principles of international environmental law, climate finance and climate litigation. In 2020 she co-edited the 4th edition of the Canadian Environmental Law and Policy Coursebook, published by Emond.
Morgane Larnder Besner
Morgane Larnder Besner holds a J.D and B.C.L from McGill University. She is currently articling at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Montreal, where she works in matters in environmental, indigenous and regulatory law. Her interests are in agricultural policy, global trade and sustainability. Morgane has held various roles in communications, including Secretariat Manager for the Center for International Sustainable Development Law and Communications Intern at the UN Institute for Environment and Human Security in Germany.
Nadia Lambek
Nadia Lambek is an assistant professor at Western University, Faculty of Law, and a human rights lawyer, researcher and advocate focused on food system transitions and the rights of working people. Nadia is a founding member of the CAFLP, and is currently Co-Chair of the Association. She supports the Youth Working Group of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism to the UN Committee on World Food Security. She is an editor of Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law (Springer 2014).
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Heather McLeod-Kilmurray
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray is a Professor and Co-Director at the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability (CELGS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Her research deals with food law including GMOs and industrial factory farming, toxic torts, environmental justice and the relationship between science and courts. She is co-author of The Canadian Law of Toxic Torts with Prof. Lynda Collins, and co-editor ofCanadian Food Law and Policy with Profs. Nathalie Chalifour and Angela Lee. She is a former part-time member of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, and a Board member of the Canadian Association of Food Law and Policy.
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Julie Tannahill
Tosh Weyman
Tosh Weyman is a senior associate at Torys LLP. His practice focuses on litigation and dispute resolution in a variety of areas, with emphasis on product liability, environmental law, corporate commercial disputes, and administrative law. Tosh regularly represents and advises clients in the agrochemical, agricultural biotechnology, and environmental science spaces, and has particular expertise in the regulation of pest management products by Health Canada. Having spent childhood weekends and summers at his grandparents’ farm in Mono, Ontario, Tosh has a love of gardening and the outdoors. He is happy with his hands in the dirt and the kitchen, growing and cooking delicious food to enjoy with family and friends.
Elizabeth Mu tan Yu
Elizabeth Mu Tan Yu is currently completing a Bachelor of Civil Law and Juris Doctor at McGill University. She will graduate in Winter 2022. Prior to her law studies Elizabeth completed a Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Honors) at McGill in Political Science with a minor in Canadian Studies. While at the Faculty of Law, Elizabeth has had the opportunity to work with McGill's Food and Agriculture Legal Clinic as Vice President(Projects) and is looking forward to stepping into the position of Clinical Director for the 2021/2022 academic year. With ten years of experience in the food and beverage industry, Elizabeth is passionate about the intersection of food, drinks, hospitality, and law. She currently continues to work in restauration and as a freelance restaurant consultant.
