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Comparing Covid Laws: A Critical Global Survey


ISBN13: 9780198899891
To be Published: December 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £125.00



The Covid-19 pandemic brought about both the most serious public health crisis as well as, for many states, the most profound public interventions in individual liberties in the last century. Comparing Covid Laws: A Critical Global Survey examines the evidence of how fifty-three countries from around the world fared at providing an efficacious response within a framework respecting the rule of law, rights, and democratic government.

The book draws primarily on data gathered within the Lex-Atlas: Covid-19 (LAC19) project, a worldwide collaboration of jurists that produced the fifty-three detailed and structurally identical country reports published in 'The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19'. This volume contains the considered critical judgments of the editorial committee of the Compendium. Over the course of twelve chapters, the text examines a wide range of topics including; the use of emergency powers to address the health crisis, the role of courts, the impact on women's rights, on privacy, on workers and on the right to protest. It also discusses how pandemic responses unfolded in particular ways in cities, federal countries and authoritarian settings.

Editors Jeff King and Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, as well as the contributors, were motivated by the belief, defended in the introduction of the book, that a good pandemic response is not simply one that achieves better outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality, a topic that dominated discussions throughout the health crisis. A good pandemic response, they argue, is also one that pursues these goals in a manner that respects democracy, the rule of law, and human rights.

Subjects:
Law and Society, Medical Law and Bioethics
Contents:
1:Introduction: Assessing Global Legal Responses to Covid-19
2:The Legislative Measures Model of Public Health Emergency Powers in Global Perspective
Jeff King
3:The Legal Response to Covid-19 in Federal Systems
Nico Steytler
4:Cities in the Legal Response to Covid-19
Elena De Nictolis
5:Pandemic Litigation and the Rule of Law: A Global Comparative Survey of the Role of Courts During the Health Crisis
Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz
6:Comparing Covid-19 Responses: Public Health and Human Rights
Colleen M Flood and Bryan Thomas
7:Covid-19 and the Interplay Between National Law and International Health Norms
Pedro A Villarreal
8:Covid-19 and the Labour Market: Crisis and the Rediscovery of Social Law
Alan Bogg and Nicola Countouris
9:Pandemic Continuities through a Gendered Lens
Silvia Suteu
10:Privacy, Informational Infrastructures, and Covid-19: Comparative Legal Responses
Michael Veale
11:Opportunistic Use of Covid-19 Protest Restrictions: A Comparative Perspective
Rebecca Freund
12:(Il)legal Responses to Covid-19 in Autocratization Settings
Eva Pils