| 书目名称 | Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic | | 副标题 | Perspectives from Su | | 编辑 | Ebenezer Durojaye,Derek M. Powell | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Highlights the role that data, science and technology have played in African states‘ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Focuses on the impact of emergency measures on the rights of marginalized groups | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends..In emergency situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a state has the right and duty under both international law and domestic constitutional law to take appropriate steps to protect the health and security of its population. Emergency regimes may allow for the suspension or limitation of normal constitutional government and even human rights. Those measures are not a license for authoritarian rule, but they must conform to legal standards of necessity, reasonableness, and proportionality that limit state action in ways appropriate to the maintenance of the rule of law in the context of a public health emergency. .Bringing together established and emerging African scholars from ten countries, this book looks at the impact government emergency responses to the pandemic have on the functions of the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, as well as the protection of human rights. It also considers whether and to what extent government emergency responses were consistent with inte | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | COVID-19; security; human rights; constitutional resilience; Sub-Saharan Africa; constitutional democracy | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06401-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-06403-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-06401-2 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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