Global Health Law Governance

15 Pages Posted: 24 Sep 2008

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Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Abstract

The field of public health law traditionally focuses on law at the national and sub-national level. National legal systems, however, are inadequate to deal with major threats to humans. Despite the inadequacies of national governance, there are fundamental questions that need resolution in the field of global health law: Why should governments care about the health of people far away? Are profound health disparities just and, if not, is there a corresponding obligation to redress the injustice? Can international law effectively bind governments, foundations, and corporations to act for the global good? This article, based on a lecture at Emory Law School, asks the hard questions and offers some ways forward for the future of global health.

Keywords: public health, national governance, global health

Suggested Citation

Gostin, Lawrence O., Global Health Law Governance. Emory International Law Review, Vol. 22, pp. 35-47, 2008, Georgetown University O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law Scholarship Paper No. 12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1272282

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