Abstract
This chapter asks: Is AIDS an object of international law? It accepts that the question is problematic but argues that answering it might allow international law to be seen differently. Drawing on public health responses to HIV/AIDS, the chapter explores this argument across three related dimensions: crisis, human rights, and law itself. Each of these is central to how we frame international law, which means that reframing them is likely to interrupt international law ‘as usual’-put differently, it is likely to interrupt the ‘order of things’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | International law's objects |
| Editors | Jessie Hohmann, Daniel Joyce |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 106-117 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191858642 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780198798200 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 01 Dec 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Several Contributors 2018.
Keywords
- AIDS
- Crisis
- Discrimination
- HIV
- Human rights
- International law
- Public health
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
