Schedule

Teaching Food Law and Policy Workshop

1:00pm - 4:00pm EST

auditorium

The Teaching Food Law and Policy Workshop will unpack the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching an emerging and interdisciplinary field of inquiry that brings together an impressive range of issues, topics, and regulatory/legal/policy regimes.

Practicing Food Law and Policy: A Student Interchange

1:00pm - 4:00pm EST

room 2005

This workshop provides an opportunity for students to come together and engage with food law and policy problems while connecting with fellow students and young professionals interested in food law. The workshop will involve a brief presentation, followed by a peer-led activity based in legal research, advocacy, and the re-imagination of food systems. We welcome young professionals and students from all academic backgrounds; however, the workshop will be curated with JD/BCL students in mind.

Lake Superior Our Helper:

Stories from Batchewanaung Anishinabek Fisheries

4:30pm - 6:30pm

auditorium

Speakers

Kerrie Blaise (Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence)

Members of Friends of the Attawapiskat River

Moderator

Kristen Lowitt (Queen’s University)

Charles Levkoe (Lakehead University)

 Rethinking Governance for Transitioning Food Systems

room 2009

Speakers

Charles Levkoe & Catherine Littlefield, “Participatory Food Systems Governance: Implications for Research and Practice”

Don Buckingham, “Black Swans or Silver Linings: Reflections on the future of food in Canada”

Abra Brynne & Jamie Baxter, “Regulating Place-based Food Businesses at Scale”

Moderator

Jenna Khoury

New Frontiers: Navigating Emerging Food Technologies

room 0019

Speakers

Daniel Dylan and Mariette Brennan, “3D Printing of Animal Protein: Analyzing the Opportunities and Obstacles of Printing Dinner 3d Meat” 

Angela Lee, “Making Meat or Making Do: Selling Cellular Agriculture in Canada”

Darinka Tomic, “Deep Space Food Challenge Competition: Interconnection between Canadian Food Law and Space Law”

Moderator

Phil Lord

Rethinking the Law and Policy of food security 

room 2009

Speakers

Tasha Stansbury, “Localized Food Systems, Food Sovereignty, and the Right to Culturally Appropriate Food”

Clarisse Delaville, “From Short-term Responses to Long-term Solutions: a Human Capital Approach to Food Insecurity in Canada” 

Jessica Dufresne, “Quelle place pour le droit à l'alimentation dans nos systèmes alimentaires territoriaux ?” 

Myriam Durocher, “Framework Bill on the Right to Food in Quebec” 

Moderator

Don Buckingham

Addressing a History of Unsustainable Production: Possible Approaches 

room 0019

Speakers

Patrícia Galvão Ferreira and Tiphaera Ziner Cohen, “Climate Change and Agri-Business”

Jeannette Tramhel, “Policy Support for Agroecology: Lessons from the Global South”

Nadia Lambek, “Contesting Agroecology at the UN Committee on World Food Security”

Moderator

Julia Witmer

Gowling WLG - Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law

The Gowling WLG – Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law will be awarded to the JD student or recent law school graduate with the best presentation in the area of food law and policy at the Canadian Food Law and Policy Conference.

The Gowling WLG – Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law is in memory of Joel Taller, who passed away on May 13, 2017.  Joel Taller was a pioneer and a well-known expert in the area food law in Canada.  Joel practiced for 34 years in the Ottawa office of Gowling WLG, working with companies of all sizes. Joel was well respected by both industry and government for his legal expertise and sound judgment. He was instrumental in developing the Food & Beverage group at Gowling WLG, a significant team of lawyers and scientists who support companies doing business in Canada, Europe and other jurisdictions around the world. 

Speakers

Noah Brennen (Western Law)

Sonia Knowlton (Yale Law School)

Jacob Van Boekel (Western Law)

Celia White (Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law)

Judges

Phil Lord

Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

Amy Hétu

William Bjornsson

Moderator

Nadia Lambek

Animals in the food system 

room 1005

Speakers

Riana Topan, “Ag-gag Laws: A Prime Example of Agricultural Exceptionalism”

Amy Hétu, “Title-Zoonotic Diseases and Meat Production: Socially Distancing Ourselves in the Name of Public Health”

Moderator

Victoria Baylis

Grounding Food Systems: Territory, Geography and Land-use Planning 

room 0019 

Speakers

Jenna Khoury-Hanna, “Updates in On Farm Diversified Use”

Renata Watkin, “Geographical Indications: Connecting Food, People & Place”

Moderator

Jacob Van Boekel

Human Rights and Pesticides

room 0019

Speakers

Alessandra Guida, “Sustainability Demands, Human Health Concerns vs an Increasing Use of Agricultural Pesticides” 

Laura Bowman, “The Human Rights Implications of Inadequate Pesticide Regulation”

Moderator

Elizabeth Yu

Addressing Food Loss and Waste

room 1005

Speakers

Heather McLeod-Kilmurray and Allison Penner, “Recentering the Drivers and Best Practices in Tackling FLW”

Josiane Rioux Collin, “The clock is ticking: dates de péremption et gaspillage alimentaire”

Moderator

Clarisse Delaville