Overcoming the legal challenge to end childhood obesity: Pathways towards positive harmonization in law and governance

Joshua Curtis and Amandine Garde

Chapter 13 in Ending Childhood Obesity, 2020, pp 339-369 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The concluding chapter to the book first recaps and then draws together the main emergent themes running through the book as a whole, which play out in the space between two core intentions animating the law in this field - to construct and protect a specific type of economic system and to establish and protect fundamental universal human rights. The themes discussed include legal fragmentation, legal capacity building and interdisciplinarity integration of the evidence-base into law and policy, and the broad potential of human rights law. Each theme poses a set of challenges, to which solutions are indicated. The last half of the chapter applies the thematic discussion and lessons learned to the possible development of a Framework Convention on Obesity Prevention, exploring how such a process may overcome the challenges identified and contribute to more harmonious international law and governance systems.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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