COVID-19, law & regulation : rights, freedoms, and obligations in a pandemic /

COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic the world has experienced in a century. This book analyses major legal and regulatory responses internationally to COVID-19, and the impact the pandemic has had on human rights and freedoms, governance, the obligations of states and individuals, as well the role...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Bennett, Belinda (Author), Freckelton, Ian R. (Author), Wolf, Gabrielle (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	COVID-19 (Disease) > Law and legislation. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 > Law and legislation. LAW / Comparative. COVID-19 (Disease) > Law and legislation Legislation Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law. Law. Since 2020 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

COVID-19, law, and regulation
Past legal and regulatory responses to infectious diseases
A global emergency
Restrictions on movement
Domestic laws and emergency measures
Litigation and legal challenges to emergency orders
Risk, impact, and disadvantage
Criminal justice issues and the COVID-19 pandemic
Civil liability, regulation, and accountability
COVID-19 and workplace and occupational health and safety
Development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
Production, regulation, and distribution of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
Law, regulation, and rights : reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic.