John Tobin, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, Australia

John Tobin is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a Visiting Professor at New York University Law School and the American Academy of Human Rights and International Law, Washington College of Law, American University.

"While the amount of scholarship on the right to health has grown over the years, John Tobins book The Right to Health in International Law stands as a valuable addition as it constitutes an ambitious, careful, critical and objective assessment of our current understanding of the international right to health and its implementation." - Ana S Ayala, Melbourne Journal of International Law

"The book is thoroughly researched, drawing extensively on international, regional and domestic jurisprudence, and written in a mannerthat is clear and accessible. It will be a valuable resource for policy makers, public health practitioners, human rights advocates and jurists interested in implementing and monitoring the right to health." - Human rights Law Centre

"Tobin offers readers a thorough and necessary discussion of the current meanings and legal obligations that stem from the global responsibility to "respect, protect, and fulfill" one's right to health. He artfully explains the evolution of the concept of health as a human right in historical, theoretical, and philosophical terms in order to describe its nature and understand its implications in a global context. The text provides a rich history of health rights based in international law and its conceptual foundations." - Health and Human Rights

"Tobin's book...certainly deserves to be among the important contributions to the literature that are happily becoming more frequent in the field of social and economic rights." - Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Human Rights Law Review 13:1