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Global Health Law Governance Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University Law Center 22 Emory International Law Review 35-47 (2008) Download the Paper (PDF format) - September 22, 2008 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: The field of public health law traditionally focuses on law at the national and sub-national level. National legal systems, however, are inadequate to deal with major threats to humans. Despite the inadequacies of national governance, there are fundamental questions that need resolution in the field of global health law: Why should governments care about the health of people far away? Are profound health disparities just and, if not, is there a corresponding obligation to redress the injustice? Can international law effectively bind governments, foundations, and corporations to act for the global good? This article, based on a lecture at Emory Law School, asks the hard questions and offers some ways forward for the future of global health. SUGGESTED CITATION: Lawrence O. Gostin, "Global Health Law Governance" (September 22, 2008). Georgetown Law. Georgetown University: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Scholarship. Paper 12. http://lsr.nellco.org/georgetown/ois/papers/12 | REPOSITORY HOME  | SEARCH  | MY ACCOUNT  | NELLCO HOME | Powered by bepress.