“What can we do? We eat the mud from the quarry when we feel hungry.”

VIDEO: Keynote by Olivier De Schutter

Watch Prof. De Schutter’s keynote address “Hunger and Unequal Development” streaming on the Yale Law School’s website!

Liveblog: Concluding Conversation

Concluding Conversation:
Building Blocks for a Just Food System
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Room 127

Moderator:  Allison Tait, Community Economic Development Clinic

Liveblogged by: David Lebowitz & Margaret Hsieh

3:41pm – We are getting started here in 127.  Allison  points out that the concluding conversation is aptly named “Concluding Conversation.”  Food policy is, according to YLS Dean Robert Post, a Victorian parlor.

Here to talk about some practical take-away points from the conference are Jun Borras, Olivier de Schutter and Andy Fisher.  Each panelist will suggest one or two steps that can be taken to bring about food production patterns that will honor the right to food and human dignity.

Liveblog: International Institutions & the Right to Food

International Institutions & the Right to Food
Moderator: Nadia Lambek ’10, Yale Law School
Panelists: Marc Edelman, Hunter College (CUNY);  Smita Narula, New York University Law School;  Flavio Valente, FIAN International

Liveblogged by: Margaret Hsieh & Paul Linden-Retek

Lambek (1:55 PM): reiterated that she, unfortunately, is not Jim Silk, who could not attend as moderator. Panel will address a variety of issues concerning international institutions and food policy.

Lunchblog: Public Interest Litigation & the Right to Food

“Between Starvation & Globalization” – Realizing the Right to Food
Facilitators: Lauren Birchfield & Jessica Corsi
Other Panelist Attendees: Smita Narula; Carmen Gonzalez; Flavio Valente

Liveblogged by: Adrienna Wong

Discussant Question 12:58 PM: What are the elements of a successful litigation strategy?

Lunchblog: Farm Subsidies in a Post-New Deal Era

Farm Subsidies in a Post New Deal Era
Facilitators:  David Lebowitz & Suzanne Love
Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal

Summary by: Annalisa Leibold

Lunchblog: IP & GMOs

Alternative Intellectual Property Regimes for
Genetically Modified Seeds
Facilitators:  Professor Daniel Kevles

Summary by: Paul Rodriguez

Prof. Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale led a discussion on intellectual property regimes with respect to plant seeds. Prof. Kevles has written extensively about science and technology and its relationship to society and is currently finishing a book on the history of intellectual property regimes with respect to life (plants, animals, and people).