
Publications
The key publications from our members relating specifically to law and NCD prevention can be found in the drop-down lists below.
- K Ward, ‘ECJ Rules that Poland Failed to Fulfil Obligations under Ambient Air Directive’ (2018) 9(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 372
- O Bartlett, ‘Reforming the Regulation on Spirit Drinks – an Example of Better Regulation?’ (2018) 9(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 310
- N Gokani, ‘Regulation for Health Inequalities and Non‐Communicable Diseases: In Want of (Effective) Behavioural Insights’ (2018) European Law Journal
- O Bartlett, ‘Power, Policy Ideas and Paternalism in Non‐Communicable Disease Prevention’ (2018) European Law Journal
- A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- O De Schutter, A Garde and J Curtis, “Introduction” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- M Friant-Perrot and N Gokani, “Human Rights, Childhood Obesity and Health Inequalities” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar, forthcoming)
- G Messenger, “Sugar as Commodity or Health Risk: The Unmaking or Remaking of International Trade Law?” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- M Sattorova, “Investment Protection Agreements, Regulatory Chill and National Measures on Childhood Obesity Prevention” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- A Garde and S Byrne, “Ending Childhood Obesity: Taking the Best Interest of the Child as a Primary Consideration” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- O Bartlett, “Multinational Food Corporations and the Right to Health: Achieving Accountability Through Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence?” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- J Curtis, “Corporate Accountability in Home State Courts and the Global Fight against Childhood Obesity” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- A Garde, J Curtis and O De Schutter, “Conclusion” in A Garde, O De Schutter and J Curtis (eds), Ending Childhood Obesity: A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Human Rights and Economic Law (Elgar 2019, forthcoming)
- A Garde, “Global Health Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention: Maximizing Opportunities by Understanding Constraints” in G L Burci and B Toebes (eds), Research Handbook in Global Health Law (Elgar, 2018).
- A Garde, S Byrne, N Gokani and B Murphy, A Child Rights-Based Approach to Food Marketing: A Guide for Policy Makers (UNICEF, 2018)
- A Garde, Implementing the WHO Recommendations on the Marketing of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, forthcoming, 2018)
- M Tatlow-Golden, A Garde and E Handsley, Children are far from protected from junk food ads – especially on social media, The Conversation, 27 February 2018, reproduced in The Independent, 20 March 2018
- A Garde and O Bartlett submitted evidence on behalf of the Law & NCD Unit to the House of Commons’ Health Select Committee in advance of its hearing on minimum unit pricing of alcoholic beverages, 22 January 2018
- G Messenger ‘Membership of the World Trade Organization’ in M Dougan (ed), The UK after Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges (Intersentia, 2017)
- A Garde (ed), Special Issue on the Implementation in Europe of the WHO Recommendations on Food Marketing to Children, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 8(2)
- A Garde, “The Implementation in Europe of the World Health Organization Recommendations on Food Marketing to Children: Introduction to the Special Issue” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 209
- A Garde and G Xuereb, “The WHO Recommendations on the Marketing of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 211
- A Garde, B Jeffery and N Rigby, “Implementing the WHO Recommendations whilst Avoiding Real, Perceived or Potential Conflicts of Interest” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 237
- O Bartlett and A Garde, “The EU’s Failure to Support Member States in their Implementation of the WHO Recommendations: How to Ignore the Elephant in the Room?” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 251
- A Garde, S Davies and J Landon, “The UK Rules on Unhealthy Food Marketing to Children” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 270
- M Friant-Perrot, A Garde and A Chansay, “Regulating Food Marketing: France as a Disappointing Example” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 311
- A Garde, S Byrne, N Gokani, B Murphy, “For a Children’s Rights Approach to Obesity Prevention: The Key Role of an Effective Implementation of the WHO Recommendations” (2017) 8(2) European Journal of Risk Regulation 327
- A Garde, “The “Obesity Risk”: For an Effective Use of Law to Prevent Non-Communicable Diseases” (2017) 8(1) European Journal of Risk Regulation 77
- O Bartlett and A Garde, “EU public health law and policy – on the rocks? A few sobering thoughts on the growing EU alcohol problem” in T Hervey et al (eds), Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy (Elgar 2017)
- A Garde responded on behalf of the Law & NCD Unit to the consultation which the WHO Secretariat hosted in August 2017 on the version of the draft outcome document for the WHO Global Conference on NCDs (Montevideo, 18-20 October 2017)
- A Garde, J Curtis and G Messenger held a national training workshop to build legal capacity on WHO Recommendations on Marketing of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children in Oman in May 2017
- A Garde contributed to the expert group report on Agir sur les comportements nutritionnels (Paris, Inserm) which evaluated the French regulatory framework on food information and food marketing from 2015 to 2017. The report was published in April 2017.
- A Garde and M Sattorova contributed to Key considerations for the use of law to prevent non-communicable diseases in the WHO European Region (Regional Office of the World Health Organization, 2017)
- A Garde contributed to Promoting good health from childhood Reducing the impact of alcohol marketing on children in Scotland. A report by the virtual expert network on alcohol marketing (Alcohol Focus Scotland, 2017).
- O Bartlett, “The EU’s Competence Gap in Public Health and Non-Communicable Disease Policy” (2016) 5 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 50
- O Bartlett, “Towards an Assessment of Minimum Unit Pricing Measures without Properly Contextualising them?” (2016) 7(4) European Journal of Risk Regulation 810
- O Bartlett, “Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol May Not be a Proportionate Public Health Intervention” (2016) 7(1) European Journal of Risk Regulation 218.
- A Garde contributed to the report of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Science and Evidence which assisted the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: Report of the First Meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on Science and Evidence for Ending Childhood Obesity (WHO, 2014)
- A Garde responded on behalf of the Law & NCD Unit to the CAP consultation on food and soft drink advertising to children
- K Ward and A Garde responded on behalf of the Law & NCD Unit to HMRC consultation on the Soft Drinks Industry Levy
- A Garde and K Ward, The Liverpool View: Towards a soft drink sugar tax?, 11 October 2016
- A Garde responded on behalf of the Law & NCD Unit to the EU Commission consultation on its new legislative proposal for Directive 2010/13/EU on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMSD) - A media framework for the 21st century
- N Gokani contributed to Every Breath We Take: The Lifelong Impact of Air Pollution (Royal College of Physicians, 2016)
- O Bartlett, A Garde and K Ward, Fizzy drinks tax alone won’t solve childhood obesity nightmare, The Conversation, 21 March 2016.
- A Alemanno and A Garde (eds), Regulating Lifestyle Risks The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A Alemanno and A Garde, “Regulating lifestyles” in A Alemanno and A Garde (eds), Regulating Lifestyle Risks The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A Garde and M Friant-Perrot, “The regulation of marketing practices for tobacco, alcoholic beverages and foods high in fat, sugar and salt – a highly fragmented landscape” in A Alemanno and A Garde (eds), Regulating Lifestyle Risks The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- O Bartlett and A Garde, “The EU Platform and the EU Forum: new modes of governance or a smokescreen for the promotion of conflicts of interest?’ in A Alemanno and A Garde (eds), Regulating Lifestyle Risks The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A Alemanno and A Garde, “Conclusion” in A Alemanno and A Garde (eds), Regulating Lifestyle Risks The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A Alemanno and A Garde, “The emergence of EU lifestyle risk regulation: new trends in evidence, proportionality and judicial review’, in H Micklitz and T Tridimas (eds), Risk and EU Law (Elgar, 2015)
- M Friant-Perrot and A Garde, “De la limitation du marketing alimentaire pour lutter contre l’obésité infantile” in E Cadeau, E Mondielli and F Vialla (eds), Mélanges en l'honneur de Michel Bélanger: Modernité du droit de la santé (Les Études Hospitalières, 2015)
- A Garde, “Law, Healthy Diets and Obesity Prevention” in The ECOG Free Obesity eBook (2015)
- A Garde and N Gokani, Marketing of HFSS Food to Children (University of Liverpool and European Heart Network, 2015)
- J Curtis contributed to a report on TTIP, ISDS and the implications for Irish public health policy
- O Bartlett responded to the Welsh Government consultation on the Draft Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) Bill.
- A Alemanno and A Garde, “The Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases in the European Union” in T Voon, A Mitchell and J Liberman (eds), Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods: The Legal Issues (Routledge, 2014).
- O Bartlett, “Distilling Prospects: Reflections on the Proportionality of Minimum Unit Pricing under EU Law” (2014) 5(1) European Journal of Risk Regulation 73.
- M Friant-Perrot and A Garde, “From BSE to obesity: EFSA's growing role in the EU's nutrition policy” in A Alemanno and S Gabbi, Foundations of EU Food Law and Policy: Ten Years of the European Food Safety Authority (Routledge, 2014).
- A Alemanno and A Garde, “L’émergence d’une politique européenne sur les risques comportementaux: tabac, alcool et mauvaise alimentation” (2014) Revue du droit de l’Union européenne 27
- A Garde, “Can the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive really be a Vector of Legal Certainty?” in W Van Boom, A Garde and O Akseli (eds), The European Unfair Commercial Practices Directive – Impact, Enforcement Strategies and National Legal Systems (Ashgate Publishing, 2014)
- M Friant-Perrot and A Garde, “L’action de l’Union européenne dans la lutte contre l’obésité’, Actes du colloque qui s’est tenu à Louvain-la-Neuve, Anthémis, 2014
- A Alemanno and A Garde, “The Emergence of an EU Lifestyle Policy: The Case of Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets” (2013) 50(6) Common Market Law Review.
- O Bartlett and A Garde, “Time to Seize the (Red) Bull by the Horns: The EU's Failure to Protect Children from Alcohol and Unhealthy Food Marketing” (2013) 38(4) European Law Review 498
- O Bartlett, “Under the influence? The Alcohol Industry’s Involvement in the Implementation of Advertising Bans” (2013) 4(3) European Journal of Risk Regulation 383
- A Garde, “The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive: A Successful Example of Legislative Harmonisation?” in P Syrpis (ed), The Judiciary, the Legislature and the Internal Market (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- A Garde, “The Best Interest of the Child and EU Consumer Policy: A Major Gap between Theory and Practice?” in J Devenney and M Kenny (eds), The Theory and Practice of EU Consumer Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- A Garde, “Freedom of Commercial Expression and Public Health Protection: The Principle of Proportionality as a Tool to Strike the Balance” in L Gormley, and N Nic Shuibhne (eds), From Single Market to Economic Union - Essays in Honour of John Usher (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- A Garde and N Rigby, “Going for gold - Should Responsible Governments Raise the Bar on Sponsorship of the Olympic Games and Other Sporting Events by Food and Beverage Companies?” (2012) 17 Communications Law 42.
- A Garde, “Advertising Regulation and the Protection of Children-Consumers in the European Union: In the Best Interests of ... Commercial Operators?” (2011) 19(3) International Journal of Children's Rights 523
- A Garde, “Freedom of Commercial Expression and the Protection of Public Health in Europe” (2011) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 225.
- M Friant Perrot and A Garde, La Publicité Alimentaire et la Lutte Contre l'Obésité Infantile en Droit Français et en Droit Anglais. Les Petites Affiches (2011)
- A Garde, “Towards the Liberalisation of Product Placement on UK Television?” (2011) 16 Communications Law 93
- A Garde, EU Law and Obesity Prevention (Kluwer Law International, 2010)
- A Alemanno and A Garde, Legal opinion on the compatibility of the UK proposals to introduce standardised packaging on tobacco products with the EU Tobacco Products Directive (Action on Smoking and Health and Cancer Research UK, 2014)
- A Garde and M Friant-Perrot, L'impact du marketing sur les préférences alimentaires des enfants (INPES, 2014)
- N Gokani, Alcohol Control: Cumulative Impact Policy; Alcohol Control: Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Order; and Alcohol Control: Late Night Levy; Alcohol Control: Designated Public Place Order (UK Health Forum, 2014)
- A Garde, “Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity: Is there a Link?” (2013) 23 Sociology Review 10
- A Alemanno and A Garde, Regulating Lifestyles in Europe How to Prevent and Control Non-Communicable Diseases Associated with Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Diets? (Swedish Institute of European Policy Studies, 2013)
- A Garde, “Malnutrition Par Excès / Overnutrition” tri-lingual entry (English, French and Spanish) for the Lascaut-Nantes University Food and Agricultural Law Dictionary (Bruylant, 2013)
- N Rigby and A Garde, Junk Food Has No Place in the Olympic Line Up, The Guardian, 17 July 2012
- A Garde contributed to A framework for implementing the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children (World Health Organization, 2012)
- A Garde contributed to Liability and the Health Costs of Smoking (European Commission, 2009).
Academic publications 2018
Policy and public engagement 2018
Academic publications 2017
Policy and public engagement 2017
Academic publications 2016
Policy and public engagement 2016
Academic publications 2015
Policy and public engagement 2015
Earlier Academic publications
Selected academic publications from before the Law & NCD Unit was established in 2015:
Earlier Policy and public engagement
Selected policy and public engagement from before the Law & NCD Unit was established in 2015: