With rising concerns around food safety, nutrition, food security, and environmental impact, legal frameworks are increasingly critical in shaping healthier food systems. This conference will foster discussions on how law can address these challenges and drive change across sectors, with a focus on regulatory innovations, cross-border policy implications, and interdisciplinary approaches to build resilient food systems for future generations.

Program – Overview

Thursday, 15 May

08.45 Walk-in, Registration

09.00 Welcome & Introduction

09.15 Building Resilient Food Systems for Future Generations: What Role for the Regulation of Access to Technology?

10.00 Coffee Break

10.30 Parallel Sessions

• PANEL 1
  One Health and Sustainable Food Systems
• PANEL 2
  Food Labeling, Consumer Protection, and Informed Choices
• PANEL 3
  Food Sovereignty, Security, and Resilience in Times of Crisis

12.30 Lunch

14.30 Parallel Sessions

• PANEL 4
  Regulating the Future of Food: Novel Foods, Technology, and Innovation
• PANEL 5
  The Role of the Food Industry in Public Health and Nutrition
• PANEL 6
  Food Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 Right to Healthy Food: the Geneva Case Study

18.00 Drink Reception

Friday, 16 May

08.30 Walk-in

09.00 20 Years of EU Nutrition Policy: A Growing Gap Between Rhetoric and Practice?

10.00 Coffee Break

10.30 Discussion Future FLAN

12.00 Lunch

14.00 Food, Diet-related Disease, and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement

15.30 Parallel Sessions

• PANEL 7
  Agriculture, Land Use, and Environmental Impacts of Food Production
• PANEL 8
  Health Protection through Ultra-Processed Foods Regulation and Information
• PANEL 9
  Legal Challenges in Food Governance and Global Trade

17.30 Closing Remarks