States of Emergencies: Part II
Introduction In our earlier post, we described how the legal bases for countries’ coronavirus responses typically fall into three broad categories. First, some countries...
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Mila Versteeg
Mila Versteeg is the Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. In 2017, she was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her work has appeared both in leading law and social science journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and Chinese. Her new book How Constitutional Rights Matter is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2020.
States of Emergencies: Part I
Introduction The fight against COVID-19 has led many countries, including liberal democracies, to take extraordinary measures that would undoubtedly be constitutionally problematic in normal...