HLAW4100 - Fundamentals of Health Law
Syllabus
On the fundamentals of international law and global health governance institutions: World Trade Organization, World Health Organization and NGO’s/civil society
Malanczuk, Peter. 1997. Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International Law. London and New York: Routledge. Chapter 1: Introduction (pp.1-9) and chapter 14: Human Rights (pp.209-221). (21 p). Available at: http://jpkc.fudan.edu.cn/picture/article/460/b5/d0/c17942674e1f8832344e9e0ec9fc/f7ad336c-8294-46f8-a94e-e863ccb9094f.pdf
Gostin, LO. and D. Sridhar. 2014. “Global Health and the Law”, New England Journal of Medicine 370:1732-1740. (8 p). http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1314094
Fidler, D.P. 2002. Global Health Governance. Overview of the Role of International Law in Protecting and Promoting Global Public Health. Discussion Paper No. 3, Centre on Global Change & Health Dept of Health & Development London School of Hygiene World Health Organization & Tropical Medicine. (54 p). http://cgch.lshtm.ac.uk/ghg3.pdf
Hunt, P. and G. Backman. 2009. “Health Systems and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health”. Pp. 40-59 in Clapham, A.; Robinson, M.; Mahon, C. and Jerbi, S. (eds.). 2009. Realizing the right to health. Swiss Human Rights Books: Rüffer & Rub. (23 p). http://dev.nesri.org/sites/default/files/Health_Systems_and_the_Rights_Backman_Hunt.pdf
Ruger, J.P. 2008. “Normative foundations of global health law”. Georgetown Law Journal 96(2):423-43. (21 p). http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/pdf/96-2/PrahRuger.PDF
Clift, C. 2013. The Role of the World Health Organization in the International System. Centre on Global Health Security Working Group Papers – Working Group on Governance - Paper 1. London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs. (54 p). http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Research/Global%20Health/0213_who.pdf
Bloche, M.G. 2002. “WTO Deference to National Health Policy: Toward an Interpretive Principle”, Journal of International Economic Law 5(4): 825-848. (23 p). http://jiel.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/825.full.pdf+html
On the fundamentals of EU health governance and the relationship between international law/EU law and national health systems
Greer, S., T. Hervey, J.P. Mackenbach and M. McKee. 2013. “Health law and policy in the European Union”, in: The Lancet Vol. 381, Issue 9872: 1135-44. (9 p). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673612620832
Mossialos, E. et al. (eds). 2010. Health Systems Governance in Europe: The role of European Union Law and Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1, 2, 8, 11, 12, 14 and 15. (261 p).Available online at: http://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/partners/observatory/studies/health-systems-governance-in-europe-the-role-of-eu-law-and-policy
Cousins, M. 2007. 'Patient Mobility and National Health Systems', Legal Issues of Economic Integration 34(2) pp. 183–193. (10 p). http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/document.php?id=LEIE2007011
Case-studies
Gostin, L.O. 2007. “Meeting basic survival needs of the world's least healthy people toward a framework convention on global health”, Georgetown Law Journal 96:331-92. (61 p). http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=fac_lectures
Friedman, E.A. and Gostin L.O. 2012. “Pillars for progress on the right to health: harnessing the potential of human rights through a Framework Convention on Global Health”, Health and Human Rights 14(1):1-19. (19 p). http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1984&context=facpub
Sykes, A. 2002. TRIPs, Pharmaceuticals, Developing Countries, and the Doha “Solution. Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 140. (25 p). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=300834
Greer, S.L. 2013. “Avoiding another directive: the unstable politics of European Union cross-border health care law”, in Health Economics and Law, 8(4):415-21. (6 p). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9004642