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The Law and Governance Group focuses on the role of law and governance in the domains of food. In research and teaching we pay attention to rules, agreements, and institutions devised and applied at different levels of socio-political organization. We analyze the often problematic and contradictory interaction of state and non-state rules originating from various sources of law and other forms of regulation, whether local, national or global. The group combines legal and social-scientific knowledge and expertise. It is our aim to analyze and understand existing conditions in the domains of food, and to contribute to their improvement.
Our teaching and research cover general aspects of law (public law, economic administrative law, competition law, transparency and freedom of information), applied to the domains of food. Main topics are:
Food law, international food production and trade
- Food security: the human right to food
- Food safety: quality and risk regulation in international food chains (EU principles; GMOs and novel food; food hygiene; food claims and labeling; enforcement and liability; WTO, Codex Alimentarius)
- Food and the market
History
In 1981 the Chair Group of Agrarian Law was re-established at the Social Sciences Department of Wageningen University. The group consisted of two chairs, one with a ‘western’ focus, the other with a ‘non-western’ focus on law. While the former was primarily concerned with Dutch and European agrarian law issues, the latter addressed agrarian issues in developing countries from a socio-legal perspective. Nowadays the group is called the Law and Governance Group. In 2006 the Group celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Law, governance and management of natural resources
Important: reorganization of the Law and Governance Group:
As a consequence of an internal reorganization of the Law and Governance Group, former LAW-staff Han van Dijk, Michiel Köhne and Dik Roth have moved to the Rural Development Sociology Group (RDS), where they continue their work on natural resources, socio-legal approaches to natural resources governance and management, legal complexity and the anthropology of law, and natural resources in the (semi-)arid regions of (especially) Africa. For more information on courses, internships, and theses (BSc / MSc), see the website of the Rural Development Sociology Group (http://www.rds.wur.nl/UK/); see also the remarks and the links on this site under ‘thesis and internships’ and ‘courses’. The reorganization has no consequences for students with a CTP (LAW) profile who want to be supervised by these new RDS members.
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