The master course explores key trends and challenges in the global food sector related to the environment, human health, and profitability. We will explore corporate innovation, government regulation, and certification programs. Comparisons are made when possible among Swiss, EU, and US, and Asian laws and corporate policies. Students examine corporate strategies in the food sector, differing legal standards among nations, changing consumer preferences, public subsidies, trade barriers, vertical integration of supply chains, branding trends, and organic certification standards. Students learn to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental law and policy, and to judge the quality and uncertainty of scientific evidence used to claim that a risk is either significant, or not worth worrying about. Each topic explores how environmental and health risks are assessed, and how legal and regulatory standards, and alternative government and corporate policies and practices that might reduce negative externalities

Dates

Duration: 6 - 16 August 2018
Place: tba

Monday 06.08.2018: 09.45-12.15
Tuesday 07.08.2018: 09.45-12.15
Wednesday 08.08.2018: 09.45-12.15
Thursday 09.08.2018: 09.45-12.15

Monday 13.08.2018: 09.45-12.15
Tuesday 14.08.2018: 09.45-12.15
Wednesday 15.08.2018: 09.45-12.15
Thursday 16.08.2018: 09.45-12.15

Exam

Take-Home Exam

Recommended Prerequisites

Solid understanding of business and economics on the BA level

Completion of an introductory course in law (BA) would be helpful
Introduction to Environmental Economics (Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie, 10160)
Public Choice and Public Economics (10148)

Course Information

• Course directory
• Syllabus
• Reading Material: see syllabus

For further information please contact the <link de studium summer-school internal link in current>Summer School office.