ASIL Insights published an interesting article on “The Swine Flu Outbreak and International Law” that is well worth a read. In the article Prof. David P. Fidler from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, gives an assessment of how the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR 2005) – adopted by the World Health Organization in an effort to revise the international rules on infectious diseases – have functioned as a response to the outbreak and spreading of the new virus.