Plants and the law: legal approaches to the plant environment

Thursday, June 22, 2017, from 8:55 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Study day as part of the Montpellier–Sherbrooke meetings
Faculty of Law and Political Science, Building 2, Lecture Hall 201

Plants represent a major challenge for our era. The contributions to this day will attempt to account for how the law approaches plants, from the guarantee of redistributive justice to the patenting of living organisms.
Whether it feeds humans and animals directly or indirectly, plants—and the laws that protect them and regulate their production and use—are at the heart of vital issues ranging from global food security to international trade in foodstuffs, from traditional, current, and future methods of agricultural production to the recognition of the value of biodiversity and its impact on health.
On the other hand, as plant life becomes a material for certain industries and the subject of appropriation in a wide variety of ways, it constantly gives rise to new risks for patients and consumers, whether in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, agricultural, or agri-food sectors, risks that the law should be able to anticipate.
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