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

Contents:

1 Ending childhood obesity: Introducing the issues and the
legal challenge 1
Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis and Olivier De Schutter

PART I HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO
CHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION
2 International human rights and childhood obesity prevention 30
Sarah A Roache and Oscar A Cabrera
3 The child’s right to health as a tool to end childhood obesity 57
Katharina Ó Cathaoir and Mette Hartlev
4 Human rights, childhood obesity and health inequalities 86
Marine Friant-Perrot and Nikhil Gokani

PART II UTILISING THE SPACE AVAILABLE
FOR REGULATORY MEASURES UNDER
INTERNATONAL ECONOMIC LAW
5 Sugar as commodity or health risk: The unmaking or
remaking of international trade law? 112
Gregory Messenger
6 Using food labelling laws to combat childhood obesity:
Lessons from the EU, the WTO and Codex 138
Caoimhín MacMaoláin
7 Investment protection agreements, regulatory chill, and
national measures on childhood obesity prevention 161
Mavluda Sattorova
8 International trade and childhood obesity: A Caribbean
perspective 185
Nicole Foster

PART III ADDITIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE UNDER
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
9 Can the United Nations system be mobilized to promote
human rights-based approaches in preventing and ending
childhood obesity? 219
Wenche Barth Eide and Asbjørn Eide
10 Combatting obesogenic commercial practices through the
implementation of the best interests of the child principle 251
Amandine Garde and Seamus Byrne
11 Multinational food corporations and the right to health:
Achieving accountability through mandatory human rights
due diligence? 282
Oliver Bartlett
12 Bridging governance gaps with extraterritorial human
rights obligations: Accessing home State courts to end
childhood obesity 309
Joshua Curtis
13 Overcoming the legal challenge to end childhood obesity:
Pathways towards positive harmonization in law and governance 339
Joshua Curtis and Amandine Garde

Index 370