On 17 December 2015, the Arbitral Tribunal dismissed Philip Morris Asia challenge to Australia plain packaging laws under a 1993 bilateral investment treaty between Australia and

Twenty legal, trade and health department representatives from across the Pacific met in Fiji to examine the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) burden in the region and the

UPDATE: On 12 April 2017, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom declined to hear an appeal from the Court of Appeal judgment. The Court of Appeal

On 17 February 2017, the Court of Appeal of Kenya at Nairobi upheld the High Court of Kenya’s dismissal of a legal challenge brought by British

This post summarises the developments in the Australia — Plain Packaging WTO cases up to 3 October 2017. The panel has since circulated its report our

I was extremely surprised to learn that Derek Yach had cited a paper of mine in his recent Lancet piece, Foundation for a smoke-free world, about

In his 23 January BMJ blog, Building a Foundation to accelerate an end to smoking, Derek Yach again defends and promotes his new Philip Morris-funded Foundation

We have just published a paper for an upcoming Special Supplement of Tobacco Control, which will examine the impact of the World Health Organization Framework Convention

This is a cross-post from the ILA Reporter, the blog of the Australian Branch of the International Law Association. The original post is available at http://ilareporter.org.au/2019/02/the-who-framework-convention-on-tobac…