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Abstract

A collectively authored article, which (unusually in legal scholarship) makes explicit the processes and methodologies by which ‘European Union health law’ is conceptualised; the implications; and the strengths and weaknesses of the approach taken. Strengths include implied structural and systemic coherence; and the breadth of analysis that having a large team of authors permits, through holding their positionalities in creative interplay with each other. The authors argue that European Union health law — defined as transversal and distinctively European Union law that either directly or indirectly affects human health, in a broad sense — should be understood through a metaphor of growth and connectedness, specifically a ‘tree’. The article seeks to initiate a discussion not only about European Union health law, but also about European law and health law.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published with license by Koninklijke Brill BV. © Tamara K Hervey et al., 2026. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
Publisher Keywords:	collaboration; European Union; legal method; legal methodology; legal taxonomy
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Departments:	The City Law School The City Law School > Academic Programmes
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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