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Professor Benn McGrady

LL.M Seminar 691 (cross-listed) | 2 credit hours

The objective of this 2 credit seminar is to introduce students to the relationship between international laws governing trade and efforts to protect and promote human health. The course will focus on the impact of the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on domestic health measures as well as on international efforts carried out under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Students will learn, and be asked to think critically about, how the international trade regime affects national regulation in the interests of human health. Overview The course will address the following subject matter. 1.Introduction to 'trade and health': issues and underlying theories. 2.The prohibitions and exceptions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in a health context. 3.Risk regulation, the precautionary principle and sanitary measures (such as import safety measures). 4.International standards and technical barriers to trade, such as labelling measures. 5.Trade in health services, health worker migration and the General Agreement on Trade in Services. 6.Access to essential medicines under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and TRIPs plus agreements. 7.The fragmentation of international law: cross-fertilization between international trade law and global health law. 8.Policy coherence, legitimacy and participatory governance at the WTO.