Alicia Ely Yamin and Angela Duger

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Adjudicating Health-Related Rights: Proposed Considerations for the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and Other Supra-National Tribunals
Alicia Ely Yamin and Angela Duger

Professor Yamin is a Lecturer on Law and Global Health, Director JD MPH Program, and Policy Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; and 2015–16 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights, University of Connecticut. Professor Yamin currently serves as: a Commissioner on the Lancet-O’Neill Institute Commission on Global Health and the Law; the UN High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth’s Expert Group and the Independent Accountability Panel for the UN Secretary’s General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health. Previously, she served on the WHO Task Forces on 'Making Fair Choices Toward UHC,' and ‘Evidence of Impacts of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Women's and Children's Health,’ as well as the Oversight Committee of Kenya’s Constitutional Implementation Commission’s work on the right to health, and as an Independent Expert to the Colombian Constitutional Court on the Implementation of its 2008 T-760/08 decision restructuring the health system. She regularly leads judicial colloquia and strategic litigation courses for practitioners, advises on specific cases, submits amicus curiae petitions and participates in expert consultations relating to the application of international and constitutional law to health issues. Professor Duger is an adjunct lecturer on international human rights law at Northeastern University School of Law and on a human rights-based approach to development in the Sustainable International Development Program at Brandeis University. She is a former Research Associate at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.

II. Preliminary Questions: Defining the Countours of the Justiciable Right