Tag: right to health
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Priority-Setting and the Right to Health: Important Advances and Missed Opportunities from the Colombian Constitutional Court
—Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard Law School In an important, newly issued opinion, T-237/2023, the Colombian Constitutional Court (the Court) addresses priority-setting in the context of triage during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Court has issued some of the most progressive jurisprudence regarding the right to health in the world.
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Constitutions, Science, and COVID: Does Constitutional Protection of Science and Health Predict Pandemic Outcomes?
—Alexander Hudson, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. For more information about our four columnists for 2020, please click here.] Those of us who study constitutions (especially in a comparative approach) are bound to wonder about the extent to which constitutional law…