Ending Childhood Obesity

Edited by Amandine Garde, Professor of Law, University of Liverpool, UK, Joshua Curtis, Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia and Olivier De Schutter, Professor of Law, Centre for Philosophy of the Law, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

'Childhood obesity is a hugely serious human rights problem. The contributions to this volume engage in a thoughtful and thought-provoking way with the topic. In doing so, they focus on the potential - and limitations - of law as part of a multisectoral, multi-level human rights-based response to childhood obesity as a human, health social, economic, ecological, development and legal challenge. The contributions address key sub-disciplines of law, particularly international economic law to international human rights law, in order to demonstrate their respective relevance with regard to efforts to address childhood obesity.'

• Contents:1 Ending childhood obesity: Introducing the issues and thelegal challenge 1Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis and Olivier De SchutterPART I HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TOCHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION2 International human rights and childhood obesity prevention 30Sarah A Roache and Oscar A Cabrera3 The child’s right to health as a tool to end childhood obesity 57Katharina Ó Cathaoir and Mette Hartlev4 Human rights, childhood obesity and health inequalities 86Marine Friant-Perrot and Nikhil GokaniPART II UTILISING THE SPACE AVAILABLEFOR REGULATORY MEASURES UNDERINTERNATONAL ECONOMIC LAW5 Sugar as commodity or health risk: The unmaking orremaking of international trade law? 112Gregory Messenger6 Using food labelling laws to combat childhood obesity:Lessons from the EU, the WTO and Codex 138Caoimhín MacMaoláin7 Investment protection agreements, regulatory chill, andnational measures on childhood obesity prevention 161Mavluda Sattorova8 International trade and childhood obesity: A Caribbeanperspective 185Nicole FosterPART III ADDITIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE UNDERHUMAN RIGHTS LAW9 Can the United Nations system be mobilized to promotehuman rights-based approaches in preventing and endingchildhood obesity? 219Wenche Barth Eide and Asbjørn Eide10 Combatting obesogenic commercial practices through theimplementation of the best interests of the child principle 251Amandine Garde and Seamus Byrne11 Multinational food corporations and the right to health:Achieving accountability through mandatory human rightsdue diligence? 282Oliver Bartlett12 Bridging governance gaps with extraterritorial humanrights obligations: Accessing home State courts to endchildhood obesity 309Joshua Curtis13 Overcoming the legal challenge to end childhood obesity:Pathways towards positive harmonization in law and governance 339Joshua Curtis and Amandine GardeIndex 370