The EUHealthGov network is delighted to announce the upcoming event in its quarterly seminar series. On Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 3-4.30 pm GMT, we are delighted to host the launch of a Symposium entitled ‘Public Health, Markets, and Law’ published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics in late 2025, and guest edited by Dr Mina Hosseini and Professor Imelda Maher of University College Dublin.
The authors and guest editors will be presenting their contributions to the Symposium and discussing overarching themes regarding the complex intersections between public health, market dynamics, and legal frameworks in Europe/the EU and beyond.
Following the discussion of the COMPHACRISIS project, which enabled the development of the Symposium by the guest editors, Dr Mina Hosseini (UCD) and Professor Imelda Maher (UCD), contributors will introduce their papers:
“Rupturing the Temporality of Pharmaceutical Patents: A Sketch for a New Temporal Economy of Pharmaceutical Markets” by Susi Geiger
“On The Quiet Power of National Decisions: Hospitals, State Aid, and Services of General Economic Interest” by Mary Guy
“The EU’s Extraterritorial Obligations for Global Medicine Access under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CPRD) ” by Katrina Perehudoff
“Trust beyond Borders: European External Regulatory Influence on Access to Medicines” by Pramiti Parwani, Katrina Perehudoff, and Anniek de Ruijter
“Abuse of Dominant Position, Effective Judicial Protection and Abuse of Procedure” by Carmen de Vivero de Porras and Enrique Sanjuán y Muñoz
“Competition Law and Ethics of Innovation as Catalysts for Fairness: Reimagining the EU’s COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy” by Mina Hosseini
“Wrestling the Two-Headed Hydra: On the Consequences of the Bifurcated Concept of ‘Undertaking’ in EU Competition Law” by Łukasz Grzejdziak
The Symposium is co-funded by the European Union’s MSCA COMPHACRISIS project and UCD Sutherland School of Law. This research is part of the COMPHACRISIS project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe MSCA programme (grant agreement no 101061575). The views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency.
EUHealthGov is a research network funded by the University Association for Contemporary Studies (UACES) and the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, focused on the governance of health in the European Union. This event is part of its quarterly online seminar series, which provides a forum for discussion of a range of EU health governance topics, presented in roundtables, in-conversation sessions, work-in-progress seminars, practitioner perspectives and other formats.
The event will last 90 minutes, including a Q&A session, and will be chaired by Dr Mary Guy (TCD). It will take place on Microsoft Teams, you can register via this link.