Benn Mcgrady

Trade and Public Health

The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol, and Diet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008410
• ISBN-10: 1107008417
• Artikelnr.: 33215710

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.