Soft Law Possibilities in Global Health Law

Global health and the law.

Pursuing Global Health with Justice: Review of Global Health Law

In 2000, LawrenceGostin published the first edition ofPublic Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint. With that book, which now has a third edition in progress, Gostin sought to ‘explain why public health law is a coherent field, distinct from other intellectual activities at the intersection of health and law’.1 Gostin’s book played a major role in triggering a ‘renaissance’ of public health law, w...

International environmental law and global public health.

The environment continues to be a source of ill-health for many people, particularly in developing countries. International environmental law offers a viable strategy for enhancing public health through the promotion of increased awareness of the linkages between health and environment, mobilization of technical and financial resources, strengthening of research and monitoring, enforcement of h...

InternatIonal Soft law

Although the concept of soft law has existed for years, scholars have not reached consensus on why states use soft law or even whether “soft law” is a coherent analytic category. In part, this confusion reflects a deep diversity in both the types of international agreements and the strategic situations that produce them. In this paper, we advance four complementary explanations for why states u...

New Governance and Soft Law in Health Care Reform

Louise G. Trubek INTRODUCTION Health care reform is underway. To resolve longstanding health care problems, reformers are using new technologies, revising the role of public agencies, expanding the use of information, and creating flexible and participatory tools. These processes are different from previous understandings of health care governance. They are based on an emerging set of practices...