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English Summary/英文概要： Tobacco use represents a critical global health challenge. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco kills nearly 6 million people a year, with the toll expected to rise to 8 million annually over the next two decades. This detailed book, written by health and legal experts from institutions around the globe, examines legal issues arising from Australia’s world-first introduction of mandatory plain packaging of tobacco products.
The book offers an in-depth exploration of relevant domestic and international legal questions in fields such as intellectual property, constitutional law, health, trade and investment. The authors’ analysis sheds light on broader questions relating to the capacity of governments to regulate tobacco products and the tobacco industry, and to regulate in the interests of public health more generally. The answers to these questions are of vital interest not only to Australia but also to the international community, with states’ regulatory sovereignty increasingly being challenged in local and international courts and tribunals.
This timely study is designed to assist international organizations, NGOs, policymakers, and scholars in law, medicine and health-related areas. Health professionals and advisors will also find much of interest here.
Contributors: A. Alemanno, G. Ayres, E. Bonadio, J. Bosland, S. Chapman, M. Davison, S. Evans, T.A. Faunce, B. Freeman, K. Lannan, J. Liberman, B. McGrady, A.D. Mitchell, M. Scollo, T. Voon
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About the Author/作者介绍： Tania Voon is Professor at Melbourne Law School and was previously Associate Dean (Research). She is a former Legal Officer of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and has practised with King & Wood Mallesons and the Australian Government Solicitor and taught at the National University of Singapore, Georgetown University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of British Columbia, and Australian universities. Tania undertook her LLM at Harvard Law School and her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the Energy Charter Treaty’s Roster of Panelists and the WTO’s Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists.
Andrew is Associate Dean (Research) and Professor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, and a member of the Indicative List of Panelists to hear WTO disputes. He has previously practised law with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters) and consults for States, international organisations and the private sector. Andrew has taught law in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, and the US. He is the recipient of six major grants from the Australian Research Council (including a Future Fellowship), the Australian National Preventive Health Agency and the National Health and Medical Research Council. Andrew has published over 150 academic books and journal articles, and is an Editor of Edward Elgar’s International Economic Law Series, an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. He has law degrees from Melbourne, Harvard and Cambridge and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. |
