Dr Brigit Toebes

Email: b.toebes@abdn.ac.uk
Tel:
Fax:
Room:

Lecturer: Honorary

LLM, PhD (Utrecht)

Brigit Toebes joined the law school as a lecturer in 2005. She was previously employed as a legislative advisor at the Netherlands Council of State, an advisory body to the Dutch government. Among other things, she was involved in advising on the reorganisation of the Dutch health care sector and on the restructuring of the supervisory mechanisms in the financial sector.

Brigit Toebes' research interests are public international law, human rights law and health law, with particular emphasis on the relationship between health and human rights. For example, she is interested in the consequences of the privatisation of health care services for consumers.

Brigit Toebes is the author of a PhD thesis entitled ‘The right to health as a human right in international law’ (published by Intersentia, 1999), which she wrote at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University. She has also worked as a research co-ordinator and researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut for International Law in The Hague, the Netherlands.


For further information about Brigit Toebes' research on health and human rights, click here.

Brigit Toebes has honorary status at the law school.

• (Toebes B.), Human Rights and Health Sector Corruption, in: Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical PerspectivesRoutledge, 2009. J. Harrington and M. Stuttaford (eds.)
  Forthcoming
• (Toebes B.), The use of depleted uranium as a violation of human rights, in: International Law and the Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons, TMC Asser Press, 2008. A McDonald, JK Kleffner and B Toebes eds.
• (Toebes B.), Sex selection under human rights law; Medical Law International, 9(3) 2008.
• (Toebes B.), Health and Health Care, Right to, Encyclopedia of Human RightsOxford University Press, 2008. D. Forsythe et al. (eds)
  Forthcoming
• (Toebes B.), Taking a Human Rights Approach to Healthcare Commercialization, in :Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis, 2008. Patricia A. Cholewka and Mitra M. Motlagh (eds.)

• (Toebes B.), Volksgezondheid in de veellagige rechtsorde: Verenigde Naties versus Nederland [Public health in the multi-layered legal order: the United Nations versus the Netherlands], in Volksgezondheid in een veellagige rechtsorde, 215-228, Kluwer, 2007. A.C. Hendriks and H.-M.Th.D. Ten Napel eds.
• (Toebes B.), The impact of acts of corruption on the enjoyment of the right to health: a report written for the International Council on Human Rights Policy (Geneva) 2007.
• (Toebes B.), The right to health and the privatization of health care services: a case study of the Netherlands, Health and Human Rights (Quarterly Journal of the Harvard School of Public Health), 9, pp.102-128, 2006.
• (Toebes B.), Kinderopvang is te belangrijk om te laten verslonzen (Nursery facilities are too important to neglect), NRC Handelsblad 2005. Dutch newspaper, 28th December 2005
• (Toebes B.), The right to health, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pp.169-190, Martinus Nijhof Publishers, 2001. 2nd ed. A Eide, C Krause and A Rosas eds.
• (Toebes B.), The wealth of the human rights lawyer, School of Human Rights Research Newsletter, 5(2), pp.1-2, 2001.
• (Toebes B.), Russian version of 'The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law', Books for Civil Society, Open Society Institute / Soros Foundation, 2001.

• (Toebes B.), The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law, pp.417 + xvi, Intersentia / Hart, 1999.
• (Toebes B.), Towards an improved understanding of the international human right to health, Human Rights Quarterly, 21(3), pp.661-680, 1999.
• (Toebes B.), The diminishing state and basic social rights, Constitutionalism, Universalism and Democracy, pp.87-107, 1999. DJ Elzinga, F Goudappel and HRBM Kummeling eds.
• (Toebes B.), Towards a universal definition of the right to health?, Medicine and Law, 17(3), pp.319-332, With AC Hendriks, 1998.
• (Toebes B.), Health and human rights: health issues discussed by United Nations treaty monitoring bodies, SIM Special No. 21, pp.25-55, 1998. With I Boerefijn.