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A Globalized Theory of Public Health Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

David P. Fidler
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This symposium issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics indicates that interest in public health law in the United States is enjoying a renaissance. The focus of the articles reflects this renaissance, as they explore the state of public health law in various contexts within the United States. Additionally, all but one of the symposium authors plies his or her trade at a university, institution, or government agency in the United States. My task here is different: I focus on public health law within the context of international relations.

Analyzing public health law with an international perspective proves no easy assignment. Examining the role of public health law in the proverbial global village takes the analysis out of the familiar territory of law operating within a single sovereign state. The analysis could take two forms. One could compare different national systems of public health law on specific issues. Such a comparative law approach would be interested in, for example, how the public health laws of the United States and South Africa differ in connection with regulating tobacco consumption.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 150 - 161
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2002

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