Human rights protection in emergency circumstances: Scope and limitations of article 15 of the European convention on human rights [PDF]
This paper examines the legal framework for the protection of human rights in situations of extreme crisis in the European legal area, in order to achieve a coherent understanding of legal standards that will lead to their more uniform application ...
Kreštalica Sanja R. +1 more
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Emergency Powers and Human Rights Derogations under the Constitution of Lesotho
Constitutions worldwide occasionally reach moments of public emergency when deviation from the ordinary normative framework is inevitable. To regulate the exercise of public power even during such moments, constitutions have provisions for emergencies ...
Hoolo 'Nyane
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Emergency governance (un)bound: A brief reflection on Southeast Europe's response to Covid-19 pandemic [PDF]
Relying on the Madison-Schmitt dichotomy in the theory of emergency governance, this article will explore to what extent constitutional courts of Southeast Europe imposed warranted limits to the executive power in their responses to the Covid-19 global ...
Miljojković Teodora
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Carl Schmitt was an anti-liberal conservative jurist during the Weimar Republic in Germany whose position on emergency powers sponsors a hardline form of ‘realism’.
Rawin Leelapatana
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When More is Less: Emergency Powers, COVID-19 and Abortion in South Australia, 2020
In March 2020, when emergency powers legislation was invoked in South Australia to manage COVID-19, the South Australian Abortion Action Coalition (saaac) had been campaigning to decriminalise abortion since 2015. The group quickly realised that COVID-19
Barbara Baird +3 more
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The Governance of Covid-19 Pandemic Health Emergency in Italy: A Constitutional Perspective
The essay focuses on the measures that have been taken in Italy to limit the contagion with Coronavirus in the first phase of the health emergency in 2020.
Angela Cossiri
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Emerging Powers, Emerging Markets, Emerging Societies: Global Responses [PDF]
In Chapter 1, we presented our understanding of the “great transformations” taking place in international relations and in the international political economy. These transformations are also creating responses at national level in terms of economic/market orientation, political alliance, development strategy, and so on. One of the book’s key objectives
Christensen, Steen Fryba, Li, Xing
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Reframing the Opioid Epidemic as a National Emergency [PDF]
On August 10, 2017 President Trump announced his intention to declare a national emergency following the recommendation of the White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.
Gostin, Lawrence O. +2 more
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United States of America and the pandemic: issues of legal regulation in combating COVID-19
The pandemic period in the United States has become a test of the strength of many state mechanisms, raised the question of the limits of the extraordinary powers of the President and governors and effectiveness of the public health system.
Natalia S. Latypova
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Parliaments during the Emergency Regimes [PDF]
Since the beginning of 2020 the World woke up to a new reality: due to the dangers of Pandemic, majority of states are forced to change the rhythm of their lives and put it under the strict measures of emergency regime.
Nana Uznadze, Giorgi Melikidze
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