‘Legality with a Vengeance’: The Role of Law in the Financialization of the Food System is an interdisciplinary research seminar that brings together academics and NGO partners to critically examine the role that different legal regimes are playing in the financialization of the global food system. In the morning sessions, speakers will present and discuss research on the dynamics of global value chains, financial land-grabs, microfinance, and commodity derivatives speculation and their regulatory and legal aspects. In the afternoon sessions, participants will work through a set of orienting questions concerning how to address financialization of agriculture, strategies for influencing policy in this area, steps that financial institutions can take to protect the right to food, and how to develop curricula to promote a critical pedagogy on agricultural financialization.
15 places are available for Junior scholars, PhD students, and Masters students. If you are interested these debates, please join us for what is sure to be a memorable day.
List of invited speakers/participants:
Grietje Baars (Senior Lecturer in International Law, City University, London); Anna Chadwick, (LKAS Fellow, University of Glasgow; Tomaso Ferrando (Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol); Sylvia Kay (Transnational Institute);Ioannis Lianos (Professor of Global Competition Law, UCL, London); Claudio Lombardi (Lecturer in Law HSC, Kazakhstan); Philip Mader (Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton); Nicolas Perrone (Lecturer in International Law, University of Durham); Anne Saab (Lecturer in International Law, Graduate Institute, Geneva); Lindy Sharpe (Centre for Food Policy); Oane Visser (Associate Professor in Rural Development Studies, EUR); Ward Warmerdam (Profundo, Netherlands)
NGOs/Policy Actors Invited: Centre for Food Policy; IFSTAL; FIAN; Profundo; TNI.
Venue: Room D427, City University, London
