'Law and the International Community: Looking Into the (Post-COVID-19) Future'
Keynote
| Paper/Presentation Title | 'Law and the International Community: Looking Into the (Post-COVID-19) Future' |
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| Presentation Type | Keynote |
| Authors | Jones, N. |
| Conference/Event | 3rd International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2020) |
| Event Details | 3rd International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2020) Event Date 01 Jul 2020 Event Location Semarang, Indonesia |
| Abstract | I had originally intended to talk about globalisation and the international community with reference to this auspicious year of 2020. This year seemed to be an appropriate time to look around with ‘2020 vision’(1) and to consider some questions about the role of public international law in a globalised world. An important threshold question might be: what is globalisation? What does it represent when we are talking about the development of the law that is expected to address its various problems? Although the term globalisation is commonly used, it has different meanings for different people and entities in the international community. I am reassured by legal scholar Professor Wolfgang Friedmann’s observation that ‘over thousands of years the most powerful minds of all nations have been unable to agree on a universal definition of law’.(2) Although I don’t believe that Professor Friedmann turned his attention to the term ‘globalisation’, I am confident that he would have reached a similar conclusion if he had. The current coronavirus crisis has now raised particular questions in relation to globalisation. Academic and media commentary currently fluctuates between warning that COVID-19 means the end of globalisation and predicting that the virus highlights the importance of globalisation.(3) As we know, the coronavirus pandemic has shut down many of the everyday activities of a globalised world: international travel has slowed or stopped, countries have closed their borders, domestic and international tourism have ground to a halt, foreign workers and students have returned home and local populations are in lockdown to an extent that would have been unimaginable a year ago. The nation State has never seemed more important or omnipotent, with countries enacting wide-ranging restrictions in response to the pandemic. Domestic commercial activity and economies have declined, jobs are cut and unemployment is rising in many countries, national laws and regulations are prioritising nationals over foreigners and ‘globalisation has imploded.’(4) My paper will start by discussing the novel coronavirus disease, now commonly called COVID-19, and will consider the public health restrictions that have been imposed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, with reference to human rights law, in my jurisdiction of Queensland. In this discussion I will mention briefly the challenges to global governance that the COVID-19 crisis has brought to prominence. Notes: |
| Keywords | Human rights, COVID-19, pandemic, globalisation |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 489999. Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified |
| Byline Affiliations | School of Law and Justice |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/zz377/-law-and-the-international-community-looking-into-the-post-covid-19-future
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