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 paper reports the first test of how exogenous health shocks impact people's longevity expectations. The analysis exploits the panel structure of the Health and Retirement Study and tests whether smokers, former smokers and those who never smoked react differently to serious, smoking related...