Overcoming the legal challenge to end childhood obesity: Pathways towards positive harmonization in law and governance

The concluding chapter to the book first recaps and then draws together the main emergent themes running through the book as a whole, which play out in the space between two core intentions animating the law in this field - to construct and protect a specific type of economic system and to establish and protect fundamental universal human rights. The themes discussed include legal fragmentation, legal capacity building and interdisciplinarity integration of the evidence-base into law and policy, and the broad potential of human rights law. Each theme poses a set of challenges, to which solutions are indicated. The last half of the chapter applies the thematic discussion and lessons learned to the possible development of a Framework Convention on Obesity Prevention, exploring how such a process may overcome the challenges identified and contribute to more harmonious international law and governance systems.