Public Health and Sustainable Development
A.Y. 2018/2019
Learning objectives
- Setting the international legal framework on the right to health
- Exploring the synergies between the SDG No. 3 and the h.r. obligations incumbent upon States
- Examining the TRIPS Agreement in the light of the Doha Declaration
- Assessing whether and if the two set of norms (TRIPS and h.r. law) are in conflict
- Exploring the synergies between the SDG No. 3 and the h.r. obligations incumbent upon States
- Examining the TRIPS Agreement in the light of the Doha Declaration
- Assessing whether and if the two set of norms (TRIPS and h.r. law) are in conflict
Expected learning outcomes
- Understanding, on the one hand, the content and the scope of the right to health under h.r. law and, on the other hand, the rationale and function of patent protection under the TRIPS
- Evaluating critically the solutions aimed at solving and/or preventing normative conflict in public international law
- Developing an in-depth insight into the new challenges on access to medicines (how to rethink the financing of R&D; what are the policy avenues that promote the access to health technologies; etc.)
- Evaluating critically the solutions aimed at solving and/or preventing normative conflict in public international law
- Developing an in-depth insight into the new challenges on access to medicines (how to rethink the financing of R&D; what are the policy avenues that promote the access to health technologies; etc.)
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
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Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course is structured in two modules:
Module 1: "Access to the Medicines: the Global Debate and Proposed Solutions"
The first module aims at evaluating: (i) whether and under what circumstances the right to access to medicines is impaired by a strict patent regulation; (ii) how to accommodate human rights considerations within the WTO standard for patent protection; (iii) how to make use of the TRIPS built-in flexibilities to effectively promote the access to medicines.
Module 2: "The Global Tobacco Epidemic. How to reconcile Public Interest Considerations with Intellectual Property and International Investment Law"
Module 1: "Access to the Medicines: the Global Debate and Proposed Solutions"
The first module aims at evaluating: (i) whether and under what circumstances the right to access to medicines is impaired by a strict patent regulation; (ii) how to accommodate human rights considerations within the WTO standard for patent protection; (iii) how to make use of the TRIPS built-in flexibilities to effectively promote the access to medicines.
Module 2: "The Global Tobacco Epidemic. How to reconcile Public Interest Considerations with Intellectual Property and International Investment Law"
IUS/13 - INTERNATIONAL LAW - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professors:
Boschiero Nerina, Buscemi Martina
Professor(s)
Reception:
Thursday 6 pm
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