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Author Greene, Alan (Law teacher)
Title Emergency powers in a time of pandemic.
Publisher Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Copyright date ©2020



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Contents 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
ISBN 9781529215434 (electronic book)
1529215439 (electronic book)
9781529215427 (ePub ebook)
1529215420
1529215412
9781529215410
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Author Greene, Alan (Law teacher)
Subject Executive power.
Epidemics -- Government policy.
Descript 1 online resource
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Media computer c
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Contents 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
ISBN 9781529215434 (electronic book)
1529215439 (electronic book)
9781529215427 (ePub ebook)
1529215420
1529215412
9781529215410
Author Greene, Alan (Law teacher)
Subject Executive power.
Epidemics -- Government policy.

Subject Executive power.
Epidemics -- Government policy.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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
ISBN 9781529215434 (electronic book)
1529215439 (electronic book)
9781529215427 (ePub ebook)
1529215420
1529215412
9781529215410

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