Perceived inadequate responsiveness of states to health and environmental crises is increasingly prompting members of civil society to adopt a critical stance and to resort to civil liability actions in order to bring about changes in public policy, as well as in industrial and institutional behaviour. The CRC on civil liability, health governance, and social change examines this global phenomenon of the judicialization of the governance of health care, public health, the environment, and biomedical innovation, and undertakes a transdisciplinary assessment of the social transformation driven by this phenomenon.
It does so through three thematic axes:
THEMATIC AXIS I
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Understanding the causes and concrete manifestations of the judicialization of health governance through civil liability actions across four key domains: public health crises; environmental protection and the fight against climate change; systemic issues affecting the safety of healthcare delivery; and biomedical innovation.
THEMATIC AXIS II
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Assessing the social, institutional, and systemic factors that shape the effectiveness of healthgovernance mechanisms pursued through civil liability litigation.
THEMATIC AXIS III
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Developing an innovative, systematic, comparative, and transdisciplinary framework for identifying and critically assessing the social transformations brought about by civilliability litigation.
