Food is one of the fundamental elements of human life: it guarantees survival, it can dispense death and, above all, as Marcel Proust reminds us, it is deeply connected to our own ‘essence,’ having the power of blessing men with ‘exquisite pleasure’ and ‘all-powerful joy.’ Given the...

Risk regulation is of crucial importance for the functioning of contemporary societies, where risk is ubiquitous. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), nanotechnologies, nuclear power and chemicals are examples of technologies and products that promise great benefits to society, and yet entail...

This article explores one dimension of the World Trade Organization (WTO) international legal framework relevant for food safety regimes. Rather than looking at individual norms, the article tries to understand what regulatory philosophies are compatible with this international legal regime....

This paper characterizes the choice between centralization and decentralization as a risk-return trade-off and examines it in a model that integrates ideas from committee-decisionmaking and portfolio theories. Centralization, by pooling expertise, rarely yields erroneous decisions; however, when...