UCL Laws: Law and Global Health Conference

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We gratefully acknowledge the Small Grant awarded by the UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health in support of this colloquium.

UCL Current Legal Issues Colloquium 2012 - Law and Global Health
2 - 3 July 2012

DRAFT Conference Programme

Monday 2 July
8.45	Registration
9:15	Welcome Session I: The Right to Health Chair Michael Freeman (UCL Laws) The Affordable Care Act in the US Supreme Court: Ideology, Politics, and the "Right to Health" George Annas (Boston School of Medicine and School of Law) Weaving Conceptual Threads to Illuminate Implementation of the Right to Health: the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa Maria Stuttaford (University of Warwick) The Struggle for the Right to Health in Kenya John Harrington (University of Liverpool) Women's Groups, Human Rights and Birth Outcomes in Poor Rural Communities Anthony Costello (UCL Institute of Global Health)
11:00	Coffee
11.15	Session 2: Health Inequalities Chaired by Belinda Bennett (University of Sydney) International Human Rights Law & Principles: Cornerstone for Defining Health Inequalities Paula Braveman (University of California, San Francisco) Health and Aging in a Global Perspective: Demographic Challenges for Justice and Development Policies Michal Engelman (University of Chicago) Global Health Law Norms and the PPACA Framework to Eliminate Health Care Disparities Gwendolyn Roberts Majette (Cleveland Marshall College of Law) Should We Do Anything About Global Health Inequalities? Richard Ashcroft (Queen Mary, University of London)
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Session 3: Health Rights and Global Health Chaired by Fiona Godlee (Editor BMJ) The Content of the Human Right to Health Jonathan Wolff (UCL) Law, Human Rights and Global Health: Moving from the Conceptual to the Empirical Sofia Gruskin (University of Southern California) Social Mobilization Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health: From the AIDS Movement to the Right to Health Kent Buse (UNAIDS) and Lawrence Gostin (Georgetown University) Making sense of Section 27: Is a rights-based budget possible within South Africa’s ‘available resources’? Mark Heywood (Section27, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law)
15:45	Tea
16:00	Session 4: Global Health Law Chaired by Jonathan Montgomery (University of Southampton) Global Health Law: Aspirational, Paradoxical, or Oxymoronic? George Smith (The Catholic University of American School of Law) Tobacco Industry Use of International Trade and Investment Agreements against Health Policy Hadii M. Mamudu (East Tennessee State University) Global Health Takes a Normative Turn: The Expanding Purview of International Health Law and Global Health Policy to Meet the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century Benjamin Mason Meier (UNC Chapel Hill) Regulation on Alcohol Marketing in Thailand: Legal Loophole and the Call for International Legal Framework Thaksaphon Thamarangsi (Center for Alcohol Studies, Thailand)
18:00	Conference Breaks for Day One
18:15	Public Lecture James Orbinski (University of Toronto) Chaired by Baroness Hale of Richmond
19:15	Drinks Reception

Tuesday 3 July
09.00	Session 5a: Vulnerability Chaired by Prof. Alison Diduck (UCL) Vulnerability as a legal concept Hazel Biggs and Caroline Jones (University of Southampton) Vulnerability: An Issue for Law and Policy in Pandemic Planning? Belinda Bennett and Terry Carney (University of Sydney) Children’s Agency in Healthcare Settings: Rights, Participation, and the CRC Maya Sabatello (NYU) Doctors, Interrogators, & the New "Science" of Torture M. Gregg Bloche (Georgetown University)	Session 5b: HIV and Reprudctive/Sexual Health Rights-based approach to HIV in Middle East and North Africa David Patterson (International Law Development Organisation) Maternal mortality and human rights: from theory to practice Judith Bueno de Mesquita (University of Essex) Appropriate legal frameworks and protection of human rights are critical enablers of effective responses to HIV among MSM and transwomen in concentrated epidemics Carlos Caceres (Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University) Progressive Punitiveness: The Scandinavian and Nordic Response to HIV Matthew Weait (Birkbeck College, University of London)
10:45	Coffee
11:00	Session 6a: Health and Global Health Chaired by Professor Maria Lee (UCL Laws) What is Health? Charles Foster (The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford) & Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford) ‘Global public goods’ and normative claims about global health Angus Dawson (University of Birmingham) Global Health, Law, and Ethics: Human Interests, Fragmented Sovereignty, and the Limits of Universalism John Coggon (University of Manchester)	Session 6b: Vulnerable Populations The Council of Europe and Irregular Migrants' Right to Health Care: Is the Council of Europe Falling behind International Standards? Sylvie De Lomba (University of Strathclyde) Global Health, Emerging Technologies and Indigenous Peoples Mark Henaghan (University of Otago)
12:45	General Discussion on Law and Global Health
13:15	Lunch
14:15	Session 7a: Chronic Diseases II Chaired by Anne Johnson (UCL) International Law and Chronic Disease William C. Cockerham (University of Alabama at Birmingham) & Geoffrey B. Cockerham (Utah Valley University) What’s wrong with libertarian paternalism? Stephen Holland (University of York) Global health: An immutable moving target Florencia Luna (CONICET-FLACSO Argentina)	Session 7b: Health Crimes Chaired by Professor James Penner (UCL Laws) Health Crimes and Globalisation: a case for extra-territorial jurisdiction and enforcement? Jean McHale & Sheelagh McGuinness (University of Birmingham) The practice of uvulectomy as a violation of the child’s dignity and right to survival Jacquineau Azetsop (Faculté des Sciences Médicales de l'Université de N'djamena) International Commercial Surrogacy: An appraisal of key legal and policy developments in permissive and prohibitive regimes Kerry Peterson (La Trobe University) Exposing the limits of the law?: Biotechnological challenges to global health Sara Fovargue (Lancaster University)
16:00	Tea
16:15	Session 8a: Governance Global Health Governance Colin McInnes (University of Aberystwyth) and Anne Roemer-Mahler (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Mission (Im)possible? The WHO as a ‘Norm Entrepreneur’ in Global Health Governance Obijofor Aginam (United Nations Univeristy) Policy space for health in the context of emerging European trade policies Meri Koivusalo (National Research And Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Finland) Global Solar Fuels and Food- Challenges for Bioethics and International law Tom Faunce (Australian National University)	Session 8b: Research Issues Chaired by Sarah Hawkes (UCL Institute of Child Health) Health-related Research on the Web: Challenges for Global Research Protection Policy Jeffrey Kahn (Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics) Global Public Health Law Research: Opportunities and Challenges Scott Burris (Temple Law School) Off-Label Drug Uses and Knowledge Deficits Patricia Peppin (Queen's University, Canada) Science and politics entangled in global food safety law Eric Millstone (University of Sussex)
18:00	Concluding Remarks
18:15	Farewell Drinks