Effective use of public health law can be a powerful tool to advance the mission of public health departments to protect and promote the health of the population. However, there is little known about the way that public health officials think about law, use law, and/or interact with their legal counsel. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the beliefs and barriers facing public healt...

(1)Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (2)National Practice Group Leader, Medical Law, Slater & Gordon; Adjunct Fellow, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia (3)School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (4)Centre for Health Governance Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, The...

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Texas. She teaches courses in health care law, bioethics, and criminal procedure. You may read Professor Carnahan’s full article, Law, Medicine & Wealth: Does Concierge Medicine Promote Health Care Choice, Or Is It A Barrier To Access?, at 17 Stanford University Law & Policy Review 121 (2006). LAW, MEDICINE, AND WEALTH: DOES CONCIERGE MEDICINE PROMOTE HEALTH CARE CHOICE OR IS IT A BARRIER TO AC...

As a consequence of rapid globalization, the need for a coherent system of global health law and governance has never been greater. This article explores the health hazards posed by contemporary globalization on human health and the consequent urgent need for global health law to facilitate effective multilateral cooperation in advancing the health of populations equitably. It sets forth the fi...

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