The World Law Institute


The World Law Institute (WLI) of Emory University works to develop, teach and promote an understanding of world law. World law includes various aspects of law governing the world economy such as world mercantile law governing the transnational transfer of goods, and world financial law governing transnational money transactions. World law also includes the transnational law of universal crimes such as genocide, terrorism, and torture, world environmental law, world health law, and (not least of all) the world law of sports. The WLI is co-directed by Professors Harold J. Berman and Johan D. Van der Vyver of Emory Law.

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The Conference on World Law & World Health: Especially Health of Women in Least Developed and Developing Countries


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On March 23-24, 2007, the WLI brought together leaders from several countries as part of its inaugural conference on World Law and World Health. The conference was held at Emory Law's Tull Auditorium in Gambrell Hall and focused especially on the health of women in countries of poverty. Among the featured speakers were former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (via videotape); former president of Ireland Mary Robinson (via videotape); former president of Hungary Ferenc Madl; and Navanethem Pillay, judge of the International Criminal Court. These speakers and more than 40 outstanding panelists addressed issues of world health, including the role of both civil society and of government as sources of emerging norms of world healthcare law. Topics discussed included religious aspects of healthcare law and practice in diverse cultures, measures needed to prevent domestic violence, sexual trafficking of girls and young women, and female genital mutilation.