Bocconi University & European Society of International Law: ‘COVID-19 and International law: Novel Strain or old wine in new test tubes?’ - 15 December 2020, 13.30-18.00 (CEST)

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As the blogosphere breathlessly attests, the COVID-19 pandemic and the reactions of states to it have thrown up a host of issues of international law. There is talk in the international legal academy of a turning point … as there was last time something big and out of the ordinary occurred. To what extent is this talk justified and to what extent is it just hype? The webinar will examine these and more specific questions of international law raised by the current global health crisis. The first panel focuses on issues of “rights, obligations and responsibility” and the second panel focuses on “defences”.