The core message of this chapter is as follows: we need to take Larry Gostin’s Global Health Law seriously. We need to do so in part because the book has heroic appeal, and in part too because it makes many legitimate criticisms of law and international human rights law in particular. In...

This short paper is one element of a longer piece titled What's Law got to do with Good Science? It is presented here along with the introduction to the longer piece. In the longer piece, Murphy's paper is joined by two others, one by Marie Fox, the other by Ilke Turkmendag. All three papers...

This paper examines the relationship between health, technology and regulation, focusing in particular on what happens in the context of innovation. Key elements identified that inform (or should inform) the regulation of new health technologies include the following: (1) hybridity, (2)...

Risk and human rights discourses dominate the landscape of prison governance in the United Kingdom. For the most part, however, criminologists have focused only on concepts of risk and lawyers on human rights; there has been little overlap in the scholarship of these disciplines. In this...

From 1 April 2005, UK law was changed to allow children born through gamete donation to access identifying details of the donor. The decision to abolish donor anonymity was strongly influenced by a discourse that asserted the lsquo;child's right-to-know' their genetic origins. The main...