The year 2020 was characterized by a myriad of restrictive public health measures (colloquially referred to as “lockdowns”) to protect against the spread of COVID-19. The daily lives of billions of persons, expressed through their routines…
Read MoreAmong the main debated constitutional implications of COVID-19 is the impact of state interventions to protect public health on individual rights and freedoms, such as lockdowns and mobility restrictions, mask and vaccine mandates. However…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic and domestic legal responses to it have inflicted widespread suffering across the globe. States, democratic and authoritarian, most of them signatories of international human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)…
Read MoreLegislatures have essential roles to play in crises, including passing emergency legislation, appropriating needed funding, providing representation, accountability and legitimacy, ensuring crucial oversight and cabining the executive from abusing the crisis…
Read MoreIn this contribution to the symposium on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on several core topics and debates within constitutionalism, I address the broad constitutional theme of federalism…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic led to a large number of countries taking sweeping executive powers to counter the spread of the virus. The debate has thus often been about whether such emergency powers have satisfied the legality, necessity and proportionality principles…
Read MoreThis post considers what lessons the COVID-19 pandemic has for debates over the appropriate place of the executive branch in contemporary constitutional government. (By ‘executive branch’, I refer primarily to the actors at the apex of executive authority – presidents…
Read MoreLegal scholars traditionally make a sharp differentiation between “political” and “technical” emergencies. The former category identifies crises triggered by political factors (e.g., war, domestic or international terrorism), while the latter encompasses…
Read MoreIt has been 18 months since COVID-19 first swept around the world. Since then, we have seen different waves of the virus affect different regions more or less severely at different times. There have been unprecedented restrictions on individual rights and freedoms…
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