Global health law

Health law is rapidly expanding both as a subject and as a discipline, at national and international levels. This expansion manifests itself on all continents, albeit to various degrees.

International health law increasingly influences the direction taken by national health laws. Indeed there is a trend towards the elaboration of a body of global health law. This book is a summary that aims to show and demonstrate this phenomenon.

Global health law appears to be the spearhead of a currently emerging general body of law for humanity. Health law is thus an essential and logical vector for the globalisation of law.

Michel Belanger is professor of law at the University of Bordeaux. He is also the coordinator (and founding member) of the Health law network of the Francophonie University Agency, Vice-president of the French Health Law Association and Director of the Centre of Study and Research on European Health Law (CERDES, Bordeaux and Nantes).