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Evidentiary Challenges for Public Health Regulation in International Trade and Investment Law

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  • Tania Voon

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Recent challenges to public health regulation such as Indonesia’s challenge to the USA’s tobacco flavouring ban in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the WTO and investment treaty challenges to Australia’s plain tobacco packaging scheme, have raised common problems of evidence in the international trade and investment law regimes. Responding states are faced with high expectations in justifying their public health measures with empirical evidence connecting the measure with its purported health outcomes. This article compares approaches to evidence in international trade and investment law and seeks to derive lessons for policymakers in developing public health regulation with potential trade and investment treaty challenges in mind. The article reflects on the kinds of evidence needed to successfully defend such challenges and the appropriate approach to assessing such evidence in disputes in these two fora.

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  • Tania Voon, 2015. "Evidentiary Challenges for Public Health Regulation in International Trade and Investment Law," Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, vol. 18(4), pages 795-826.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jieclw:v:18:y:2015:i:4:p:795-826.
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    1. Barlow, P. & Stuckler, D., 2021. "Globalization and health policy space: Introducing the WTOhealth dataset of trade challenges to national health regulations at World Trade Organization, 1995–2016," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 275(C).

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