2025

By Gaëlle Foucault and Catherine Régis[1] « The report is timely and essential » (Roojin Habibi) On June 2, 2025, the webinar “Perspective on WHO’s Normative Leadership: An Empirical and Comparative Analysis of Six States” was held, at which eight speakers presented and commented on the findings of the report entitled The Normative Leadership of […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. « Aujourd’hui à Genève, les Nations du monde ont écrit l’histoire »[1]. Ces mots du Directeur général de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, prononcés le 16 avril 2025 sont évocateurs et rendent compte des attentes et espoirs qui reposaient sur l’adoption d’un nouveau […] Read more

This webinar will present the results of a collaborative research project bringing together experts from different countries in international law, public health and global governance, with closing remarks by Professor Roojin Habibi, WHO legal expert. The aims of the event are firstly, to explore how WHO standards are integrated into national legislation, then to identify […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Nouvelle publication d’un article dans le numéro 43 du Journal de droit de la santé et de l’Assurance Maladie portant sur l’utilisation des normes de l’OMS dans les instances nationales.   Pour lire l’article, cliquez ici Read more

With U.S. President Donald Trump announcing that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the very day he takes office - January 20, 20251 - it seems ever more urgent to study this organization, whose future is threatened by the departure of one of its biggest financial contributors2. Created in […] Read more

A new article by Maëlenn Corfmat, Joé T. Martineau et Catherine Régis, entitled “High-reward, high-risk technologies? An ethical and legal account of AI development in healthcare”, has just been published in the journal BMC Medical Ethics: High-reward, high-risk technologies? An ethical and legal account of AI development in healthcare | BMC Medical Ethics. Read more

A new article by Catherine Régis, Gaëlle Foucault, Pierre Larouche, Jean-Louis Denis and Miriam Cohen, entitled "The empirical apprehension of the normative leadership of an international organization: the example of the World Health Organization", can be found in the latest edition of Lex Electronica: Droit international en droit interne_Développements récents et perspectives comparées (English version). […] Read more