The first and most important global challenge high- lighted by contributors is the poor health of billions in the world, particularly in lower- and middle-income countries, and, related thereto, inadequate and inequitable access to care and essential medicines. Can law make a difference? Most contributors to this special edition focused on access to health care as opposed to health simpliciter — likely because injustices of the latter sort are more difficult to fit in a legal frame, given the diffusion of actors involved and the problem of establishing causation between an individual’s poor health and larger social determinants of health. How- ever, one contributor did explicitly tackle the issue of global health inequities. According to Solomon Benatar, law may help to challenge existing norms and reformulate them, but law alone will not be enough; closing the global health chasm requires a radical reconceptualization of the distribution of health and the sphere of health care. Benatar criticizes the legal of the Supreme Court has been widely criticized from that perspective. At the conference, two presentations addressed this debate. In her contribution, Mariana Mota Prado discusses the case of Brazil — frequently held up as an example of “right to health” litigation worsening inequality of access to health care, by diverting public funds to expensive novel treatments for affluent claimants. Prado does not reject these claims, but she adds complexity to this debate by suggesting that one has to look at the longer-run impacts of this form of litigation. She argues resulting policy changes order underlying our current capitalist market sys- tem for colluding with the processes that contribute to huge wealth disparities by gravely misallocating the resources that influence the social determinants of health. He argues that our international legal order facilitates a shift towards hyper-individualism and super-capitalism and erosion of cooperation, solidarity, and mutual responsibility. These distortions have coincided with the commodification of health care and an emphasis on technical innovation over the effective deployment of existing knowledge and technologies. Developing sustainability and improving global population health, according to Benatar, will require changes in international law that incorporate a re-thinking of social priorities and a re-examination of the legal powers of corporations.