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...

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...

Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion of old and very old people in the global population. As a result, an increased proportion of global income will be devoted to LTC services. With...