Introduction to the Series
The COVID-19 pandemic already has had a vast array of legal implications which have dramatically altered daily life. While liberal, universal rights such as liberty and privacy are being radically curtailed in the name of public health, legal responses impact upon populations in radically unequal ways. These dimensions include - but certainly are not limited to - race, gender, disability, vulnerability and social class. Legal interventions are consistently justified on the basis of science, which is assumed to be unequivocal and beyond debate. At the same time, resistance to legal action is also apparent, as rumours and conspiracy theories - like the virus itself - multiply around the globe. At the same time as public policy measures are introduced, systems of legal regulation and compliance (which were often themselves justified on the basis of public protection) are modified or suspended in the name of necessity, with no indication as to when or how they will be restored.
Moreover, the relationship between law and discretion has been reshaped, and this in turn has impacted upon individuals and communities.
This series of monthly remote workshops organised on the Zoom platform by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies during the 2020-21 academic year seeks to ‘make sense’ of the wide ranging relationship between law and the pandemic through the insights of the humanities, broadly understood as the set of cultural influences which are shaping the use of law and the responses to it. Authors will present their work in progress for twenty minutes, followed by questions from the audience and discussion. The intention is to publish the papers following the completion of the series.
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Programme
| Wednesday, 21 st October 2020, 1700 BST Capitalism, Commodification, and Coronavirus |
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| Public Interest or Social Need? Reflections on the Pandemic, Technology and the Law Dimitrios Kivotidis, University of East London |
| At War with Themselves: The Conflict at the Heart of the Coronavirus Pandemic David M Seymour, City, University of London |
| Friday, 13 th November 2020, 1200 GMT Life, Death and Health During the Pandemic |
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| Death, Burials and Funerals: Grieving in the Shadow of Covid-19 Hui Yun Chan, University of Huddersfield |
| The Politics of COVID-19: Reshaping Healthcare Law and Policy in the UK Sabrina Germain, City, University of London |
| Counting the Dead During a Pandemic Marc Trabsky, La Trobe University |
| Tuesday, 8 th December 2020, 1200 GMT Movement, Security And Lockdown |
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| Penal System and Biopolitics in the time of Covid-19 Pandemic: An Indonesian Experience Harison Citrawan, Ministry of Law & Human Rights, Republic of Indonesia Sabrina Nadilla, Ministry of Law & Human Rights, Republic of Indonesia |
| Walls and Bridges: Metaphors of Movement and Constraint in Legal Responses to COVID-19 David Gurnham, University of Southampton |
| Security and the Pandemic: A View from Hong Kong Marco Wan, University of Hong Kong |
| Thursday, 21 st January 2021, 1500 GMT The Local Meets The Global: National Responses to the Pandemic |
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| Nationalising a National Emergency: The Manx Response to the Pandemic Peter Edge, Oxford Brookes University |
| Prospects for Recovery in Brazil: Deweyan Democracy, the Legacy of Fernando Cardoso and the Obstruction of Jair Bolsonaro Frederic R Kellogg, Federal University of Pernambuco, George Washington University, & School of Law of Damas George Browne Rego, Federal University of Pernambuco & School of Law of Damas Pedro Spindola, Law School of Catholic Immaculate Conception of Recife |
| Pandemic and Mandate Shifting: Central-Local Government Tensions in the Making of COVID-19 Legal Frameworks in Indonesia Justitia Avila Veda, Universitas Indonesia Geger Riyanto, Heidelberg University |
| Wednesday, 17 th February 2021, 1200 GMT Pandemic Planning, Models And Regimes Of The Body |
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| Masking Then and Masking Now: Compliance and Resistance during the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic David Carter, University of Technology Sydney Mark De Vitis, University of Sydney |
| Models and Lawmaking: Knowledge, Trust and Authority in a Pandemic Ting Xu, University of Essex |
| Tuesday, 16 th March 2021, 1700 GMT (Re)Imagining the Human Condition through Covid-19 |
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| Covid-19 and the Legal Regulation of Working Families Nicole Busby, University of Glasgow Grace James, University of Reading |
| Playing with Wench Tactics: Thinking about Rhythm, Routine and Rest in Decelerating University Life after the Pandemic Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University of London |
| Law, Every Day Spaces and Objects, and Being Human Jill Marshall, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Wednesday, 21 st April 2021, 1500 BST Gendering the Pandemic |
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| Women, Violence and Protest in Times of COVID-19 Kim Barker, The Open University Olga Jurasz, The Open University |
| Bahraini Family Laws During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Questioning the Re-emergence of Gendered and Sectarian Identities Fatema Hubail, Georgetown University in Qatar |
| Law’s Invisible Women: The Unintended Gendered Consequences of the COVID-19 Lockdown Lynsey Mitchell, University of Abertay Michelle Weldon-Johns, University of Abertay |
| Wednesday, 19th May 2021, 1800 GMT The Margins and the (Epi)Centres: Place, Space and the Pandemic |
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| Ethical Limits of Pandemic Governance: International Refugee and Human RIghts Law Redefined? Nergis Canefe, York University |
| Pandemic, Humanities and the Legal Imagination of the Disaster Valerio Nitrato Izzo, University of Naples Frederico II |
| The Pandemic and the Ship Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia Mikki Stelder, University of British Columbia & University of Amsterdam |