Tag: pandemic
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The Right to Science and the Pandemic: at the Crossroads of Law and Politics
—Luísa Netto, Postdoc Visiting Fellow, Leiden University and Assistant Professor, Catholic University of Minas Gerais The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications or merely the right to science is positivized as a human right in various international law instruments, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the…
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COVID-19 and the Basic Law: On the (Un)suitability of the German Constitutional “Immune System”
—Pierre Thielbörger, Professor, and Benedikt Behlert, Research Associate and PhD student, both at Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV); Ruhr-Universität Bochum [Editor’s Note: This is a translation of a German-language post from Verfassungsblog, which can be found here.