This book presents a range of insights on the relationship between food and law. It will be a valuable resource for researchers and policy-makers working in the area of Food Law and Comparative Law.

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds.

This book examines the greening of civil codes from a comparative perspective. It takes into account the increasing requirements of supranational rules, discusses the necessity to expand distributive justice, and reflects on which private law legal tools may potentially be employed to defend nature’s interests.