socio-legal studies about Socio-Economics

WHETHER STATUTORY LIABILITY SHOULD PRECEDE CIVIL LIABILITY FOR REGULATING THE FARMING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS? A SOCIOECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE U.K.: A RESEARCH PROPOSAL
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A Thesis Proposal for the Partial fulfillment of
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University of ______________
January 2018
Whether statutory liability should precede civil liability for regulating the farming of Genetically Modified Crops? A Socioeconomic Perspective of the U.K.: Research Proposal
Section 1: Introduction
Different nations have recognized the benefits of farming Genetically Modified Crops (GMCs). However, these nations have also recognized the inability of traditional civil liability systems to provide an appropriate legal framework to such operations. Different studies highlighted that the safety issues that are related to GM farming are either cryptic or inconclusive. Such issues impose significant challenges on legal stakeholders and policymakers in dealing with the safety violations that are related to farming of GMCs. This is because there is inconclusive evidence regarding the harmful effects of GMCs. On the contrary, the U.S. has endorsed that GM crops are as safe as their natural variants. Although the United Kingdom has not exhibited such aggressive support to GM farming like their American counterparts; however, th…