This is a book for an extraordinary time, about a pandemic for which there is no modern precedent. It is an edited collection of original essays on Asias legal and policy responses to the Covid19 pandemic, which, in a matter of months, swept around the globe, infecting millions. It transformed daily life in almost every corner of the planet lockdowns of cities and entire countries, physical distancing and quarantines, travel restrictions and border controls, movementtracking technology, mandatory closures of all but essential services, economic devastation and mass unemployment, and government assistance programs on recordbreaking scales. Yet a pandemic on this scale, under contemporary conditions of globalization, has left governments and their advisors scrambling to improvise solutions, often themselves unprecedented in modern times, such as the initial lockdown of Wuhan. This collection of essays analyzes law and policy responses across Asia, identifying crosscutting themes and challenges. It taps the collective knowledge of an interdisciplinary team of sixtyone researchers both in the service of policy development, and with the goal of establishing a scholarly baseline for research after the storm has passed. The collection begins with an epidemiological overview and survey of the law and policy themes. The jurisdictionspecific case studies and crosscutting thematic essays cover five topics first wave containment measures emergency powers technology, science, and...

Binding: Hardcover;482 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 969.12 g; Dimensions: N/A

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