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Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author: Joelle Grogan; Alice Donald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032078854
Published In: May 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, parliaments and courts. Legal and political institutions struggled to adapt, creating a catalyst for democratic decline and catastrophic increases in poverty and inequality.

This handbook analyses the global pandemic response through five themes: governance and democracy; human rights; the rule of law; science, public trust and decision making; and states of emergency and exception. Containing 12 thematic commentaries and 25 chapters on countries of diverse size, wealth and experience of COVID-19, it represents the combined effort of more than 50 contributors, including leading scholars and rising voices in the fields of constitutional, international, public health, human rights and comparative law, as well as political science, and science and technology studies.

Taking stock after the onset of global emergency, this book provides essential analysis for politicians, policy-makers, jurists, civil society organisations, academics, students and practitioners at both national and international level on the best, and most concerning, practices adopted in response to COVID-19 - and key insights into how states and multilateral institutions should reform, adapt and prepare for future emergencies.
PART I: Governance and Democracy
The Pandemic and the Future of Global Democracy
Tom Gerald Daly
COVID-19 Vaccines and Global Governance: How Structural Factors Dictate Procurement and Vitiate Patient Autonomy
Jerome Amir Singh
Accountability through Dialogue: New Zealand’s Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dean R Knight
China and COVID-19: An Archetypal Legal and Governmental Response to an Exceptional Challenge
Jacques deLisle and Shen Kui
(Un)Governing: COVID-19 Response in the UK
Joelle Grogan
COVID-19, the United States and Evidence-Based Politics
Mark A Graber
Democracy in the Time of COVID-19: Pandemic Management, Public Trust and Democratic Consolidation in Singapore
Shirin Chua and Jaclyn L. Neo
PART II: Human Rights
Human Rights – the Essential Frame of Reference in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alice Donald and Philip Leach
Assessing Human Rights Compliance during COVID-19
Martin Scheinin
Going Beyond the Rhetoric: Taking Human Rights Seriously in the Post-COVID-19 World
Stéphanie Dagron
Finland’s Success in Combating COVID-19: Mastery, Miracle or Mirage?
Martin Scheinin
A Crisis of Rights and Democracy in India
Thulasi K Raj
Dealing with the Pandemic and Social Unrest: A Stress Test for Colombian Institutions
Julián Gaviria-Mira and Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos
Thailand’s Response to COVID-19: Human Rights in Decline and More Social Turbulence
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang and Rawin Leelapatana
Political Opportunism and Pandemic Mismanagement in Kenya
Tara Imalingat, Nerima Were and Allan Maleche　
PART III: The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law as the Perimeter of Legitimacy for COVID-19 Responses
Joelle Grogan and Julinda Beqiraj
Baselining COVID-19: How Do We Assess the Success or Failure of the Response of Governments to the Pandemic?
Hans Petter Graver
Brazil: COVID-19, Illiberal Politics and the Rule of Law
Thomas Bustamante and Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer
Dealing with COVID-19 in Sweden: Choosing a Different Path
Iain Cameron and Anna Jonsson Cornell
Turkey: Pandemic Governance and Executive Aggrandisement
Başak Çalı and Emre Turkut
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pretext for Expanding Power in Hungary
Kriszta Kovács
The Politicisation of Health and Threats to the Rule of Law in Pakistan
Shaheera Syed and Nadia Tariq-Ali　
PART IV: Science, Public Trust and Decision Making
A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19
Sheila Jasanoff and Stephen Hilgartner
Open Science, Data Sharing and Pandemic Preparedness
Ciara Staunton
Taiwan’s Effective Pandemic Control with Dialogic Constitutionalism
Wen-Cheng Chang and Chun-Yuan Lin
Public Health, Technology and Social Context in Rwanda’s COVID-19 Response
Denis Bikesha and Allan T Moore
Germany and COVID-19: Expertise and Public Political Deliberation
Anna Katharina Mangold
The Rationality of South Africa’s State of Disaster during COVID-19
Melodie Labuschaigne and Ciara Staunton
Iran’s COVID-19 Response: Who Calls the Shots?
Marzieh Tofighi Darian
PART V: States of Emergency and Exception
Responding to COVID-19 with States of Emergency: Reflections and Recommendations for Future Health Crises
Cassandra V. Emmons
The COVID-19 Emergency in Western European Democracies: Trends and Issues
Arianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani
Exposing Inequalities: The Experience of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples during COVID-19 Emergencies
Rasha Al Saba and Samrawit Gougsa
When Emergency is Permanent: Egypt’s Legal Response to COVID-19
Ahmed Ellaboudy
The COVID-19 Emergency: Malaysia’s Fragile Constitutional Democracy
R Rueban Balasubramaniam
The French Management of COVID-19: Normalisation of Regimes of Exception and Degradation of the Rule of Law
Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche
The Philippines under Lockdown: Executive Dominance and an Unclear Pandemic Response
Maria Ela L Atienza
All Bets on the Executive(s)! The Australian Response to COVID-19
Marco Rizzi and Tamara Tulich
BEYOND THE PANDEMIC
Lessons for a ‘Post-Pandemic’ Future
Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald