Sustainable Food Choices, Dietary Guidelines and International Economic Law
4:30pm - 6:00pm /
Thursday 25th May 2017
/ Venue: Taylor Room Sydney Jones Library
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
Add this event to my calendar
Click on "Create a calendar file" and your browser will download a .ics file for this event.
Microsoft Outlook: Download the file, double-click it to open it in Outlook, then click on "Save & Close" to save it to your calendar. If that doesn't work go into Outlook, click on the File tab, then on Open & Export, then Open Calendar. Select your .ics file then click on "Save & Close".
Google Calendar: download the file, then go into your calendar. On the left where it says "Other calendars" click on the arrow icon and then click on Import calendar. Click on Browse and select the .ics file, then click on Import.
Apple Calendar: The file may open automatically with an option to save it to your calendar. If not, download the file, then you can either drag it to Calendar or import the file by going to File >Import > Import and choosing the .ics file.
A large body of work has explored the interconnections between public health nutrition and environmental issues stemming from food systems. Scholars and regulatory actors at domestic and international levels have been examining and developing policy responses that simultaneously address nutrition and environmental sustainability to harness common causes and solutions. In that context, national and international progress is being made towards more holistic dietary guidelines, integrating the traditional ‘food pyramid’-type approach with broader recommendations regarding a range of food and diet related policy and implementing regulations.
These developments raise potential concerns under international trade law and international investment law, for example to the extent that such guidelines promote local products as a means of supporting both environmental and health aspects of sustainable development. Drawing lessons from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its relevance to recent disputes in international economic law, Prof Voon will consider the tensions between public health and international economic law while also examining the role of international instruments in supporting domestic dietary guidelines that could be challenged in the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) or under investor-State dispute settlement.
Tania Voon is Professor at Melbourne Law School and was Associate Dean (Research) from 2012-2014. She is a former Legal Officer of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and has previously practised law with King & Wood Mallesons and the Australian Government Solicitor and taught law at Georgetown University, theUniversity of Western Ontario, the University of British Columbia, and several Australian universities. Tania undertook her LLM at Harvard Law School and her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2007), editor of Trade Liberalisation and International Co-operation: A Legal Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Edward Elgar, 2013), and series editor of the International Economic Law Series of Oxford University Press. Tania is a member of the Roster of Panelists for the Energy Charter Treaty and of the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for resolving WTO disputes. She has provided expert advice and training to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the WTO, the World Health Organization, Telstra, and the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer. She has been Senior Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, NYU Law (2014), Visiting Fellow at PluriCourts, University of Oslo (2015), and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2016).
These developments raise potential concerns under international trade law and international investment law, for example to the extent that such guidelines promote local products as a means of supporting both environmental and health aspects of sustainable development. Drawing lessons from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its relevance to recent disputes in international economic law, Prof Voon will consider the tensions between public health and international economic law while also examining the role of international instruments in supporting domestic dietary guidelines that could be challenged in the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) or under investor-State dispute settlement.
Tania Voon is Professor at Melbourne Law School and was Associate Dean (Research) from 2012-2014. She is a former Legal Officer of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and has previously practised law with King & Wood Mallesons and the Australian Government Solicitor and taught law at Georgetown University, theUniversity of Western Ontario, the University of British Columbia, and several Australian universities. Tania undertook her LLM at Harvard Law School and her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2007), editor of Trade Liberalisation and International Co-operation: A Legal Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Edward Elgar, 2013), and series editor of the International Economic Law Series of Oxford University Press. Tania is a member of the Roster of Panelists for the Energy Charter Treaty and of the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for resolving WTO disputes. She has provided expert advice and training to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the WTO, the World Health Organization, Telstra, and the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer. She has been Senior Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, NYU Law (2014), Visiting Fellow at PluriCourts, University of Oslo (2015), and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2016).