Risks and Risk Regulation: Personal Reflections

¹ For an example, see Jin Zining, “Environmental Impact Assessment in China’s Courts: A Study of 107 Judicial Decisions” (2015) 55 Environmental Impact Assessment Review 35.

² Francis Snyder, Food Safety Law in China: Making Transnational Law (Leiden: EJ Brill Publishing, for the Xiamen Academy of International Law, Collected Courses, Vol VI, 2016).

³ See Francis Snyder, “The Contribution of Anthropology to Teaching Comparative and International Law” in Marie-Claire Foblets, Gordon Woodman and Anthony Bradney (eds) The Trials and Triumphs of Teaching Legal Anthropology (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Co, for the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle s/Salle, Germany, 2017, forthcoming).

⁴ See Francis Snyder [lead author], Lu Yi and Gulrez Yazdani, “Traditional Chinese Medicine and European Union Law” (2014) 2(1) July Peking University Law Journal 129.

⁵ For example, Robert Boyer, La Théorie de la regulation: Une analyse critique (Paris: La Découverte 1986).

⁶ For example, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Les 100 mots de la regulation (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, “Que-sais je?” No 3971 2011).

⁷ Regulation 178/2002 of the European Parliament and the Council [2002] OJ L31/1.

⁸ See Francis Snyder, “CAP” in Erik Jones, Anand Menon and Stephen Weatherill (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012) 485.

⁹ See Francis Snyder, “The EU, China and Product Standards” in Sebastian Bersick, Kerry Brown, Andrew Cottey, Jorn-Carsten Gottwald and Wei Shen (eds), Routledge Handbook on EU-China Relations,(London: Routledge 2017, forthcoming).

¹⁰ The above dialogues may be found in Francis Snyder, The European Union and China, 1949–2008: Basic Documents and Commentary (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2009).

¹¹ See “EU-China Strategic Agenda for Cooperation”, issued at EU-China Summit meeting in November 2013, available at <http://eeas.europa.eu/archives/docs/china/docs/eu-china_2020_strategic_agenda_en.pdf>, last accessed 29 November 2016. See also Etienne Reuter and Jing Men (eds), China – EU: Green Cooperation (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing 2014).

¹² For a list, see World Health Organization, “Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases”, available at <http://www.who.int/csr/disease/en/>, last accessed 29 November 2016.

¹³ For further discussion in the context of international trade relations, see Francis Snyder, The EU, the WTO and China: Legal Pluralism and International Trade Regulation (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2010) 381–423.

¹⁴ With regard to food safety in China, it was first proposed by Vice-Premier Wang Yang in 2013 and reiterated by Premier Li Keqiang in 2014: see Sun Ying, “From Risk Communication to Society Co-governance: Ways of Dealing with Crisis in Governmental Administration of Food Safety” (2016) 4(4) July China Legal Science 100, 112–114; see also Wang Yang, “Focusing on food and drug safety supervision”, available at <http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2013-08/23/content_29804616.htm>, last accessed 29 November 2016. More generally, see John Ackerman, “Co-Governance for Accountability: Beyond ‘Exit’ and ‘Voice’” (2004) 32(3) World Development 447.

* C.V. Starr Professor of Law, EU Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Director, Center for Research on Transnational Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China; Special Endowed Chair Professor of Food Safety (Part-time), Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China; Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. I am grateful to Jin Zining for helpful comments; email: fgsnyder@gmail.com.