Trade and Public Health - The Wto, Tobacco, Alcohol, and Diet

Informationen zum Autor Benn McGrady is an Australian lawyer based at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies. He has provided legal advice to public health bodies and international organizations concerning the impact of international trade and investment law on measures to protect public health and has published work in journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law, the World Trade Review and the Journal of World Trade. Klappentext Examines extent to which law of the WTO restricts domestic implementation of taxes, restrictions on marketing, product regulation and labeling measures for public health purposes. Zusammenfassung This book examines the extent to which the law of the World Trade Organization restricts domestic implementation of taxes! restrictions on marketing! product regulation and labeling measures for public health purposes. The relationship between international health instruments and the WTO Agreement is examined! as are the WTO covered agreements themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Intersections between trade and non-communicable disease; 2. Normative integration: using health instruments in interpretation of the WTO covered agreements; 3. Freedom to use taxes, subsidies and restrictions on marketing; 4. Necessity and regulatory autonomy under the GATT; 5. Product regulation and labeling measures under the SPS and TBT agreements; 6. Reallocating authority at the international level: delegation, legalisation and harmonisation; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Benn McGrady, Benn (Georgetown University Mcgrady, McGrady Benn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9781107008410
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00841-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Economics, finance, business & management, Law, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, economic growth, Development Studies, Public health and preventive medicine, Medical and healthcare law, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade