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Emergency powers in a time of pandemic.

How do we maintain core values and rights when governments impose restrictive measures on our lives? Declaring a state of emergency is the best way to protect public health in a pandemic but how do these powers differ from those for national security and economic crises? This book explores how human...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greene, Alan (Law teacher)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Emergency Powers in a Time of Pandemic
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Notes on the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One The Pandemic State of Emergency
  • Introduction
  • What is a state of emergency?
  • Declaring a state of emergency: who decides?
  • Pandemics as a state of emergency
  • The exceptional emergency response to COVID-19
  • Implementing responses to the pandemic emergency through law
  • 'Business as usual' models
  • Emergency legislation: the 'legislative accommodation' model
  • The signal sent by declaring a state of emergency
  • Conclusions
  • Two Pandemics and Human Rights: Non-Derogable Rights
  • Introduction
  • What are human rights?
  • Sources of international human rights norms
  • My view of rights
  • Who protects human rights?
  • COVID-19 and human rights
  • Non-derogable rights and COVID-19
  • Pandemics and the right to life
  • Provision of adequate personal protective equipment
  • Protection of individuals in state-run institutions
  • Duty to investigate
  • Conclusions
  • Three Pandemics and Human Rights: Derogable Rights
  • Introduction
  • Lockdown
  • Lockdown and liberty
  • Article 5.1(e) and the lawful detention of persons for the prevention of the spreading of infectious diseases
  • Article 5.1(e) and the detention of healthy persons to prevent the spread of disease
  • Lockdown: restriction or deprivation of liberty?
  • The quarantining effect of Article 15
  • Lockdown and qualified rights
  • Assessing breaches of qualified rights
  • Freedom of assembly and association during lockdown
  • Pandemics and freedom of expression
  • Pandemics and the right to property
  • Conclusions: to derogate or not to derogate?
  • Four Pandemics and Democracy
  • Introduction
  • The importance of legislatures
  • Delegating power to the executive
  • Helping legislatures to sit
  • Alternative methods of enabling legislatures to sit
  • Holding elections during a pandemic
  • Democracies, pandemics and the failure to respond
  • Conclusions
  • Five The End of the Pandemic Emergency
  • Introduction
  • The rush to normalcy
  • Lifting lockdowns: from containment to mitigation and back again
  • Contact tracing apps and the right to privacy
  • Immunity certificates
  • The discriminatory potential of immunity certificates
  • Quarantine regimes and air bridges
  • Conclusions
  • Six Conclusions: Breathing Space
  • Introduction
  • Pandemics and permanent states of emergency
  • The permanent emergency threat
  • Pandemics and economic crises
  • Planning for the next pandemic: the importance of emergency preparedness
  • Emergency preparedness and human rights
  • Final conclusions
  • Index
  • Back Cover