“The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Food”
April 13 at 3 p.m. in Room 152
The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into conflict the United States and the European Union. Yet the dispute – pitting a largely acceptant US against an EU deeply suspicious of GMOs – has developed into one of the most bitter and intractable transatlantic and global conflicts, resulting in a contested legal battle before the World Trade Organization (WTO). Professor Greg Shaffer will present a chapter from his new book with Oxford University Press, assessing the choices facing the WTO’s judicial body, and the impacts, and the limits, of international pressures on domestic US and European law, politics and business practice.