ESIL Conversations | Global Health Law and Governance Between Progress and Challenges | 5 May 2026
The European Society of International Law (ESIL)
is hosting
ESIL CONVERSATIONS
“Multilateralism in Times of Unilateralism”
“Global Health Law and Governance Between Progress and Challenges”
5 May 2026, 15:00-16:30 Rome Time, Online
<Registration closes on 5 May 2026 at 13:00 (Rome time)>
THE ESIL CONVERSATIONS
The ESIL Conversations are conceived as a series of online events through which The European Society of International Law (ESIL) aims to contribute to the discourse on international law. The first series, “Multilateralism in Times of Unilateralism”, is focused on negotiations of major treaties (like the Convention on Crimes against Humanity or the Convention on Protection of Persons in the Events of Disasters, as well as on the future of the United Nations Organisation). The ESIL Conversations will offer high-level discussions on central questions of international law.
MORE ABOUT THE THIRD CONVERSATION “GLOBAL HEALTH LAW AND GOVERNANCE BETWEEN PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES”
In this third conversation on “Global Health Law and Governance Between Progress and Challenges”, organised in cooperation with the ESIL Interest Group on International Health Law, our ESIL Lifetime Member and International Health Law IG Convener Gian Luca Burci (Geneva Graduate Institute), will moderate a panel of academics and experts from the field discussing the 2024 amendment to the International Health Regulations, the Pandemic Agreement, the current negotiations on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) Annex, and the overall state of global health governance.
The panel of experts includes:
- Mark Eccleston-Turner, Reader in Global Health Law, King’s College London, United Kingdom
- Björn Kümmel, Head of the “Global Health” unit of the Federal Ministry of Health, Germany
- Suerie Moon, Co-Director, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland
- Steven Solomon, Principal Legal Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland
- Pedro A. Villarreal, Senior Research Fellow at both the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany
