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  • Reflections on Global Health Law Education

  • Danwood M. Chirwa
  • Journal:
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics ,
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 March 2025, p. 1
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  • Global health law has now emerged as an area of specialisation for students interested in global problems concerning health due largely, if not principally, to the inspiring lifelong scholarly work of Professor Lawrence Gostin. A growing number of universities in the world have established programs on global health law in which they address questions of equity and solidarity in addressing public health issues and emergencies, global and national preparedness for pandemics and other health related emergencies, international health regulations, and the intersection between health and human rights, to mention a few. We can expect that as global health threats and inequalities in access to health continue to rise, interest in global health law as a field of legal research and education will continue to grow.

  • 4 - Access to Water as a New Right in International, Regional and Comparative Constitutional Law

  • from The Right to Water
  • Edited by Andreas von Arnauld, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Kerstin von der Decken, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Mart Susi
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 55-69

  • Summary

    Water, like the air we breathe, is a life-sustaining resource that we cannot live without. It also happens to be a common heritage of all mankind which past generations preserved, used and passed what remained on to the current generation, which must in turn manage and use it sustainably for onward transmission to future generations. It should therefore be uncontroversial to say that everyone has a right of access to water – but it is not. Can one say that access to water is now recognised as a new right in international law and a constitutional right in comparative domestic law? Why should one ask this question in the first place? Are there arguments against the recognition of the right to water? Do these arguments have any merit? This chapter seeks to address these pressing questions in the context of the current state of international and comparative law. The ultimate purpose is to find out whether there is a trend towards the recognition of access to water as a new right in international and comparative constitutional law, and if so, how such a trend is manifested.