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Automated Law and COVID-19: Data Driven Measures With National...
(Pix credit:支付宝健康码7天落地超100城 数字化防疫跑出“中国速度” )Pix Credit HEREIt should come as no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic would generate responses by states, entities and other actors with governance (and...
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Morality and COVID-19: Abortion in the Shadows of Coronavirus and its...
The issue of morality tends to be overlooked in the shadow of COVID-19 as people necessarily focus on the urgent issues of preventing infection, treating the sick, and finding a cure, while protecting...
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Dueling COVID-19 Banjos: The United States and China Fiddle With Narrative...
(Pix Credit: HERE)It appears that, even in the midst of substantial human suffering, there is always time for propaganda and propaganda wars. The extraordinary narcissism of nations, taxed almost to...
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Chinese Policy Moves Forward in the Shadow of COVID-19 Analysis of...
For those following the evolving situation of the COVID-19 pandemic especially in leading states, it might be useful to consider the report of the 27 March Meeting of the Politburo of the Chinese...
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Text of the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act” or the...
In very quick action, the political branches have passed and the President has signed the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act” or the “CARES Act” (HR 748S. 3548). President Trump on...
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Shasha Li: Commentary on "Binwen Xing (Jilin University School of Law): 'Can...
Over the course of the last several years, Chinese scholars have been engaging in a very interesting discussion about the way that constitutional sensitivities to human rights affects Chinese law and...
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Sustainability and COVID-19--Water Scarcity, Epidemics, and the Case of Cuba
Sustainability, which appeared to be slated for substantial attention and action by both governments and enterprises, appears to have receded a little into the background as states and enterprises seek...
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Yuri Gonzalez Hernandez: Report on the Emerging Scope of COVID-19 in Cuba
(All Pix Yuri González Hernández ) The Coalition for Peace & Ethics has been reporting on the pandemic situation in Cuba (see here, here, and here). In particular we have been connecting the issues...
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COVID-19 and the Unadorned Italian Experience: Flora Sapio Reports from the...
The world's attention moved quickly from China to Italy after February 2020. Where this had been treated as an Asian problem around the New Year, that sense of distance evaporated quite quickly when...
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COVID-19 and Suicide--The Dark Side of Narrative and the Agony of Pandemic
(Pic credit here)Hysteria, obsession, and what feels like the inescapable reality of a pandemic served up in a never ending stream of exclamation points. Thsi si what surrounds the masses in thsi era...
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Announcing Publication of "The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical...
I take a moment from our focus on the COVID-19 pandemic to announce the publication of The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup's Bold Proposal (Peer Zumbansen, ed.,...
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Preserving Collective Memory in the Shadow of Pandemic--Priya Gupta and Peer...
"Time just flies now. As as the time is now, “let’s make this moment last”. Because living through this “time takes too much time”, and it appears to me how valuable it might be to have an open,...
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Register Now for Online Roundtable/Conference: COVID-19 and International...
The organizers now invite interested participants to register for the Webinar Conference/Roundtable: COVID-19 and International Affairsnow scheduled for 17 April 2020 from 9.30 am - 12.30 pm US East...
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COVID-19 and the Aged; Cruelty and Hard Choices in Times of Stress and A View...
Coronavirus: Europe's care homes struggle as deaths riseCare homes have seen appalling outbreaks leading to a collapse in staffing. Last month the military was called in to help at retirement homes and...
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COVID-19: Focus on the East and South Africa and the Connection With China
(Pix Credit: Nina Callaghan and Mark Swilling, "Covid-19: Economic impact on East and southern Africa," MSN News (2020-03-27))We have been reporting on the effects of COVID-19 in Africa (Jonathan...
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Dra. Valeska V. Geldres Weiss: COVID-19 Reflections; "A Time for us to...
(Henri Rousseau, La Guerre dit aussi La Chavauchée de la Discorde (vers 1894; Musée D'Orsey, Paris))Some people have begun to speak of this time as a portal. "Historically, pandemics have forced...
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Registration Now Open (Free) Coronavirus and International Affairs 17 April 2020
Registration is now open for the Webinar Conference, Coronavirus and International Affairs. Registration is free but virtual spaces are limited.Please access registration (which is quick and easy)...
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Yuri Gonzalez-Hernandez Reports on Cuba, Panama, and Peru on the Front Lines...
In anticipation of the Webinar Conference/Roundtable, Coronavirus and International Affairs, scheduled for 17 April 2020 from 9.30 am to 12.30 PM US East Coast Time, we have been looking at the way...
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UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Statement on the...
(Pix credit: Covid-19 is disproportionately taking black lives)One of the more interesting aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the way that it clarifies the way that political, social, cultural, and...
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Announcing Publication of "Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business"...
I take a moment from our focus on the COVID-19 pandemic to announce the publication of Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business (Surya Deva and David Birchal, eds., Edward Elgar, 2020)) (ISBN:...
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