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What impact has the global pandemic had on our society?

Leading experts from the Human Rights Centre and Essex Law School have been working on a publication on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected our societies during this time of uncertainty.

The publication helps to showcase the wide range of research taking place at the University of Essex. Contributors include Members of the Human Rights Centre, Essex Law School and the School of Health and Social Care, students and research staff from the University and some external organisations and universities with whom we are collaborating, such as Amnesty International and Fair Trials.

The publication has been released online by the University of Essex. Read the full publication, or explore the individual chapters below, with breakdowns of individual chapters and their thematic areas.

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Some Conceptual Framings

Some Conceptual Framings: A Discussion

Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors: Eliana Cusato, Lecturer; Andrew Fagan, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Human Rights Centre; Emily Jones, Lecturer and Ozan Kamiloglu, Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre

The Reach of Rights in the Crisis

Sheldon Leader

Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Rights and Responsibilities: Protecting and Fulfilling Economic and Social Rights in Times of Public Health Emergency

Koldo Casla

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Rethinking Minimum Guarantess after the Pandemic: The Invisible Violence of Neoliberal Rationality

Ozan Kamiloglu

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Global, Regional and Comparative Perspectives

Global, Regional and Comparative Perspectives: A Discussion

Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors: Sanae Fujita, Fellow, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre; Tom Flynn, Lecturer, Essex Law School; Yseult Marique, Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School; Onyeka Osuji, Reader, Essex Law School; Clara Sandoval Villalba, Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre

Moving Towards Global Solidarity for Global Health through Multilateral Governance in the Covid-19 Response

Judith Bueno De Mesquita

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors also include Benjamin Mason Meier, Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

African Union and Public Health Crises in a Regional Legal Order

Onyeka Osuji

Reader, Essex Law School, University of Essex

Crisis, Opportunism, and Opportunity: How the Pandemic has Exacerbated Pre-existing Constitutional Tensions in the European Union

Tom Flynn

Lecture, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

A "New Normal": Legality in Times of Necessity: French Administrative Law under the Health Emergency

Yseult Marique

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Victims' Participation in Times of Covid-19 in Transitional Justice Accountability Mechanisms: What is Needed for Virtual Hearings to Fulfil this Right? The case of Columbia and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Clara Sandoval Villalba

Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors also include: Dr Michael Cruz, Researcher, Essex Transitional Justice Network, Camila Ruiz Segovia, Masters students at the Geneva Academy and intern at the Essex Transitional Justice Network

The Right to Health

The Right to Health: A Discussion

Essex Law School and Human Rights, University of Essex

Authors: Judith Bueno De Mesquita, Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, Sabina Michalowski, Professor, Essex Law Skill and Human Rights Centre

COVID-19: An inconvenient truth? Re-evaluating Progress and Confronting Challenges for the Right to Health

Judith Bueno de Mesquita

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Co-Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

The Use of Age as a Triage Criterion

Sabine Michalowski

Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Regulation of the Economy

The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Regulation of the Economy: A Discussion

Essex Law School, University of Essex

Authors: Johanna Hoekstra, Lecturer, Essex Law School; Jessica Lawrence, Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School; Niall O’Connor, Lecturer; and Eugenio Vaccari, Lecturer, Essex Law School

COVID-19, Export Restrictions, and the WTO: Magnifying Global Divisions in a Time of Crisis

Jessica Lawrence

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School, University of Essex

Regulating International Contracts in a Pandemic: Application of the Lex Mercatoria and Transnational Commercial Law

Johanna Hoekstra

Lecturer, Essex Law School, University of Essex

Changes to UK Insolvency Rules in the Wake of COVID-19: A Much-Needed Help for Businesses or an Unjustified Harm to the Rule of Law?

Eugenio Vaccari

Lecturer in Company and Corporate Insolvency Law, Essex Law School, University of Essex

The Right to Work and Rights in Work during the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Response of the United Kingdom

Niall O’Connor

Lecturer, Essex Law School, University of Essex

The Impact on Vulnerable Populations

Vulnerability: A Discussion

Essex Law School, University of Essex

Authors: Laura Carter, PhD Candidate, Geneva Academy; Caroline Bald, Lecturer; Aaron Wyllie, Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care; Andrew Fagan, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Human Rights Centre; Carla Ferstman, Senior Lecturer; Geoff Gilbert, Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre

The Politics of Identity in the UK: Before, During and After Covid-19

Andrew Fagan

Director, Human Rights Centre and Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre

COVID-19 And Social Inequalities in Health in the UK

Caroline Bald

Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex

Authors also include: Dr Sharon Walker, Independent Researcher

Forced Displacement in a Time of a Global Pandemic

Geoff Gilbert

Professor of Law, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Detention and Pandemic Exceptionality

Carla Ferstman

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Imperfect Models of the World: Gender Stereotypes and Assumptions in COVID-19 Responses

Laura Carter

PhD Candidate, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

The Human Rights of Older People During COVID-19: Social Wellbeing and Access to Care and Support for Older People in the United Kingdom

Aaron Wyllie

Lecturer, Centre for Social Work and Social Justice, University of Essex

Access to Justice

Access to Justice: A Discussion

Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors include: Timea Tallodi, Lecturer; Elizabeth Fisher Frank, Lecturer; Lee Hansen, Lecturer; Joanna Harwood, Lecturer; Jaime Lindsay, Lecturer; Timea Tallodi, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre

COVID-19 and Criminal Justice: Temporary Crisis or Long Term Reform?

Donald Nicolson

Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre and Director of the Essex Law Clinic, University of Essex

Authors also include: Jago Russell, Chief Executive, Fair Trials

Effective Mobilisation of Social Welfare Law Advice in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Lee Hansen

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre and Deputy Director, Essex Law Clinic, University of Essex

Legal Advice in the COVID-19 Lock-Down: Making Do or Brave New World?

Elizabeth Fisher-Frank

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre and Essex Law Clinic Supervisor, University of Essex

Authors also include: Donald Nicolson Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre and Director of the Essex Law Clinic

Domestic Abuse and COVID-19: The Legal Challenges

Joanna Harwood

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Love of Video Mediation In The Time of COVID-19: An Initial Insight into Benefits and Challenges

Timea Tallodi

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Open Justice, Participation and Materiality: Virtual Hearings and the Court of Protection

Jaime Lindsey

Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre , University of Essex

Big Data and Technology

Big Data and Technology: A Discussion

Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors include: Elena Abrusci, Senior Research Officer; Audrey Guinchard, Senior Lecturer; Sabrina Rau, Senior Research Officer; Antonio Coco, Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre; Talita de Souza Dias, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Our Digital Footprint under Covid-19: Should We Fear the UK Digital Contact Tracing App?

Audrey Guinchard

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

With Great Reliance comes Great Responsibility: The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19

Sabrina Rau

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

An ‘infodemic’ in the Pandemic: Human Rights and COVID-19 Misinformation

Elena Abrusci

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors also include: Sam Dubberley, Research Consultant with the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project at the University of Essex and Special Adviser to the Evidence Lab, Amnesty International; Lorna McGregor, Professor, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre and Director of the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project

Cyber: Due Diligence in Public Health Crises

Antonio Coco

Lecturer , Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors also include: Talita de Souza Dias, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Accountability

Accountability: A Discussion

Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Authors include: Tara Van Ho, Lecturer; Antonio Coco, Lecturer; Carla Ferstman, Senior Lecturer; Panagiota Kotzamani, Lecturer and Meagan Wong, Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre