L’halal friendly come opportunità per un mercato europeo inclusivo

Sabrina Lanni

doi:10.54103/milanoup.214

L’halal friendly come opportunità per un mercato europeo inclusivo

Authors

Sabrina Lanni

University of Milan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0149-085X (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.214.c385

Synopsis

The essay explores the issue of consumer law from an intercultural perspective, highlighting how compliance with shari‘a by various sectors of the consumer market may be able to satisfy the spiritual requirements of the believing consumer and, at the same time, to show an identity and cultural sign of a concrete opening towards a Europe that wants to be a promoter of dialogue between the different legal systems. Halal lifestyle is a rapidly developing area of the consumer market, which means the need to strengthen the accuracy and completeness of information to consumers through halal labelling. The latter is a tool of trust, which can however be lost since it is plausible that through the labelling may be violated the conformity of the good with the consumer’s religion or beliefs or, more generally, with the ethical aspirations of the same. This means that it is necessary to reflect in terms of remedies, when the consumer has not made an informed choice or when a lack of conformity has been identified, taking into account not only national laws but also the prospects of harmonization of European private law, in particular those pursued by Reg. EU 1169/2011 and Dir. EU 771/2019.

Author Biography

Sabrina Lanni, University of Milan

Sabrina Lanni is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies (DILHPS) of the University of Milan “La Statale”, where she teaches ‘Comparative Private Law’, ‘Private Law in Europe and Latin America’, ‘Private Law of Persons and Markets’, ‘Comparative Law, Sustainability and Food Safety’. She has been a tenured professor at the university since 2001. Before coming to Milan in 2018, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia” and before that a researcher at the National Research Council - University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She is the author, promoter and editor of various research projects dealing in particular with consumer rights, the recodification of civil law, the supranational harmonisation of private law, the rights of indigenous peoples and food sustainability. She is the editor of eight collections, author of four monographs and numerous articles published in Italian and foreign legal journals. Since 2011 she has been the director of the series ‘Roma e America. Sistema giuridico latinoamericano. Studi’, published by ESI. She is responsible for two European projects, the Jean Monnet module HELACOL (2016-2019) and the Jean Monnet Chair ENFASIS (2020-2023).