Born in the Tuscany countryside, Silvia Rolandi is an International Agri-food law lawyer. Graduated in International Private Law at the University of Pisa and a post-graduate course in International Trade Law at ITC-ILO in Torino. While visiting the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy, University of California Los Angeles, Silvia earned her PhD from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Politics, Human Rights, and Sustainability.

She works in her law firm and is an assistant professor at the University of Pisa, within the Pisa Agricultural Economics Team - Food and Rural Studies for Sustainability, mainly focusing on digitalization in agriculture and rural areas, but also dealing with other issues and Lecturer in the Netherlands at Wageningen University and Research within the Law Group. She has been a Slow Food activist since 2008 and is currently a member of her local convivium and the regional committee.

Lecture

Wine Legislation

05 Feb, 10:00-11:45, @Podere La Chiesa

Whether it occurred by accident or design, the invention of wine has been lauded as a fundamental achievement in human history. Wine’s preeminent role in sacred and secular life throughout the millennia is celebrated in literature, arts, religious rituals, and the culinary field. Wine production and trade have created great economic wealth, it has been the cause of many conflicts and spurred territorial conquests. For thousands of years, wine has played an important role as an agricultural product that ensures a livelihood for producers and distributors, and a legal framework has always accompanied this. There are rules concerning how to trade the wine, provide information to consumers, enhance territorial linkages through quality schemes, and the role played by group producers and associations. We will focus on this last part, the legal dimension, to provide an initial tool kit pack to navigate the intricated existing rules.