“Public Health, Markets, and Law” Symposium, The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Cambridge University Press, September 2025

“Public Health, Markets, and Law” Symposium, The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Cambridge University Press, September 2025

The Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics has published the (opens in a new window)‘Public Health, Markets and Law’ symposium, which explores the complex intersections between public health, market dynamics, and legal frameworks. Guest edited by Mina Hosseini and Imelda Maher from University College Dublin, UCD Sutherland School of Law, this collection emerged from their two international workshops funded by the EU’s MSCA COMPHACRISIS project and UCD Sutherland School of Law. These workshops brought together a diverse range of experts from various backgrounds and career stages, including public health, business, sociology, law, and ethics, enabling us to view public health problems from different perspectives and uncover relationships that may not be apparent when viewed through a single lens.

Featured Papers & Authors:

(opens in a new window) “Rupturing the Temporality of Pharmaceutical Patents: A Sketch for a New Temporal Economy of Pharmaceutical Markets” by Susi Geiger

(opens in a new window) “On The Quiet Power of National Decisions: Hospitals, State Aid, and Services of General Economic Interest” by  Mary Guy

(opens in a new window) “The EU’s Extraterritorial Obligations for Global Medicine Access under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CPRD) ” by Katrina Perehudoff  

(opens in a new window) “Trust beyond Borders: European External Regulatory Influence on Access to Medicines” by  Pramiti Parwani,  Katrina Perehudoff, and  Anniek de Ruijter

(opens in a new window) “Abuse of Dominant Position, Effective Judicial Protection and Abuse of Procedure” by  Carmen de Vivero de Porras and Enrique Sanjuán y Muñoz

(opens in a new window) “Competition Law and Ethics of Innovation as Catalysts for Fairness: Reimagining the EU’s COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy” by Mina Hosseini

(opens in a new window) “Intellectual Property Rights & Global Access to Health-Technologies During Pandemics: Reflecting on Vaccine Nationalism, COVID-19 and the WHO Pandemic Agreement Negotiations-The Need for Collective Action and Institutional Change ” by Aisling McMahon

(opens in a new window) “Wrestling the Two-Headed Hydra: On the Consequences of the Bifurcated Concept of ‘Undertaking’ in EU Competition Law” by Łukasz Grzejdziak

Acknowledgements

This Symposium is co-funded by the European Union’s MSCA COMPHACRISIS project and UCD Sutherland School of Law. This research is part of the COMPHACRISIS project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe MSCA programme (grant agreement no 101061575). The views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency.