Rate My Professor Ludivine Petetin

Professor Ludivine Petetin is Professor of Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and a member of the Wales Governance Centre. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, as well as postgraduate taught degrees from Paris II Panthéon-Assas and the University of Glasgow. Her expertise lies in agri-food-environmental issues, devolution, and international trade from multilevel and multidisciplinary perspectives. Her research focuses on the impact of Brexit and COVID-19, particularly in areas such as agri-food democracy, food security, agri-technology, sustainable agriculture, novel food technologies, and rural development. She investigates public participation, animal welfare, devolution, and governance issues across the UK (especially Wales), EU, US, and WTO levels. Petetin regularly engages with governments, legislatures, and stakeholders, including civil society organisations, particularly in the UK and France.

Petetin serves as an associate of the Brexit and Environment Network, a member of the Environmental Governance Stakeholder Group within the Welsh Government, and on the management board of the European Council for Agricultural Law (CEDR). She is the Book Review Editor of the European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR), sits on the editorial board of Le Déméter, and is part of the management group of the ESRC-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (established until 2027). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US), and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Georgia (US) and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy). Her key publications include the co-authored book Brexit and Agriculture (Routledge, 2022), a chapter 'Setting the path for UK and devolved agriculture' in The Governance of Agriculture in Post-Brexit UK (Routledge, 2022), and the article 'The COVID-19 crisis: An opportunity to integrate food democracy into post-pandemic food systems' (European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2020). Other significant works are 'Precaution and equivalence - the critical interplay in EU biotech foods' (European Law Review, 2017) and the report 'Food sovereignty and food security: Concepts and legal framework' (European Council for Rural Law, 2019).