Legal aspects of euthanasia: Medical Global Challenges: Should International Law Enforce Euthanasia?

In the 2006/2007 Academic Year Violeta Besirevic, the winner of the CEU/SPO Visiting Research Fellowship Grants carried out this research project at CELAB on legal aspects of euthanasia. Defining euthanasia as an action or inaction with the intent of bringing about a patient’s death in order to end their suffering, the purpose of Besirevic´’s research was to examine the controversy of euthanasia in the context of international law and to establish whether legalization will be an inevitable outcome of global trends.