Emergency Powers in a Time of Pandemic
By Alan Greene
Published
Oct 29, 2020Page count
182 pagesISBN
978-1529215410Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 29, 2020Page count
182 pagesISBN
978-1529215427Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 29, 2020Page count
182 pagesISBN
978-1529215427Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressIn the media
On our blog: Can democracies respond to pandemics and protect human rights?
'How democracy could become one of the pandemic’s lasting victims' in NewStatesman
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 rights, democracy and the rule of law can be protected during a pandemic and how emergency powers can best be ended once it wanes.
Written by an expert on constitutional law and human rights, this accessible book will shape how governments, opposition, courts and society as a whole view future pandemic emergency powers.
Alan Greene is a senior lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham. He specialises in the limits of constitutionalism, judicial review and the role of courts in vindicating the rule of law. He is the author of Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law (Hart, 2018), the key text in the field.
Introduction
The Pandemic State of Emergency
Pandemics and Human Rights: Non-Derogable Rights
Pandemics and Human Rights: Derogable Rights
Pandemics and Democracy
The End of the Pandemic Emergency
Conclusions: Breathing Space