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Rationale of the Group
State responses to COVID-19 engage the full breadth of public law. Comparative constitutional scholarship is critical in enabling countries to learn from the experiences of others as we face a common challenge. Moreover, the fact that all countries in the world are responding at the same time to the same challenge—albeit with different dimensions—enables a reconsideration of many of the central debates in comparative constitutional law, from democratic backsliding and federalism to the role of AI and the regulation of Big Tech.
In order to provide a forum for scholarly research into public law responses to COVID-19, this Research Group aims to create a worldwide network of scholars who share interests in particular aspects of public law and their relationship to the protection of public health. The Group aims at facilitating conversations between scholars with a view to making contributions to new and emerging debates in public law. The Group may also seek to provide feasible guidelines to policymakers and practitioners who are called to manage public health crises.
The Group focuses on two research streams, although the Group is responsive to the academic interests of its members and the research focus may evolve over time.
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Convenors
- Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
- Universidade de Brasília
- Oran Doyle
- Trinity College Dublin
- Chiara Graziani
- University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Brasilia and CNPq Research Fellow.He was a DAAD/CAPES PhD Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, DAAD/CAPES Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics of the University of Bremen and Alexander von Humboldt/CAPES Senior Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He is currently the Head of the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies of the University of Brasília. He is the author of the book On The Limits of Constitutional Adjudication: Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism (Springer, 2010), co-editor of the book Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America (Hart, 2019, with Richard Albert and Carlos Bernal), and is currently writing the book Rule of Law in Brazil (Hart, 2021 forthcoming). Since 2015, he has been a regular contributor to I-CONnect. In relation to COVID-19, he is particularly interested in how middle-income and poor countries have been challenged in their constitutional, political and economic framework as well as the connections between COVID-19 and inequality.
Oran Doyle is Professor in law at Trinity College Dublin. He has held visiting positions at the Academia Sinica Taipei, Bocconi University Milan, Keio University Tokyo, and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He is an expert in comparative constitutional law, his recent work being published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Global Constitutionalism, the German Law Journal, and the European Constitutional Law Review. He is the author of 'The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Account' (Hart 2018). Prof Doyle’s research focuses on how constitutions change and how they relate to territory. In relation to COVID-19, he is interested in how existing constitutional structures and values succumb or respond to the pressures of managing the pandemic. He is the director of the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory.
Chiara Graziani is a Research Fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca and an Academic Fellow at Bocconi University, Italy.
Her research addresses emergency powers in political and non-political crisis, the balance between national security and human rights, the use of artificial intelligence and technology.
She spent research stays at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, the University of Valencia, the Library of the European Court of Human Rights, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the Trinity College Dublin.
In relation to COVID-19, she is interested in how emergency powers have been resorted to in the struggle against the pandemic, in the impact of anti-Covid measures on the hierarchy of legal sources, as well as in legal issues arising from technology surveillance tools (included artificial intelligence-based systems) set up to deal with the spread of the disease.
She is a contributor to Comparative Covid Law.
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Members
- Adugna Gebeye, Berihun – University of Gottingen
- Arduin, Sarah – Trinity College Dublin
- Bar Siman tov, Ittai – Bar Ilan University
- Bell, Mark – Trinity College Dublin
- Bień-Kacała, Agnieszka – Nicolaus Copernicus University
- Casey, Conor – EUI Florence
- Colon Rios, Joel – Victoria University of Wellington
- Cornell, Anna – Uppsala University
- Cotino Hueso, Lorenzo – Universidad de Valencia
- Drinóczi, Tímea – University of Pécs
- Fennelly, David – Trinity College Dublin
- Grogan , Joelle – University of Middlesex
- Guild, Elspeth – Queen Mary University
- Huang, Cheng-Yi – Academia Sinica
- Kenny, David – Trinity College Dublin
- Kılıç, Arınç – Lund University
- Kuo, Ming-Sung – University of Warwick
- Lyons, Donna – Trinity College Dublin
- Mulligan, Andrea – Trinity College Dublin
- Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala – University of Minnesota Law School
- Pfersmann, Otto – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
- Pin, Andrea – University of Padua
- Roy, Suryapratim – Trinity College Dublin
- Saunders, Cheryl – University of Melbourne
- Scheinin, Martin – EUI Florence
- Sullivan, Gavin – University of Kent
- Tourkochoriti, Ioanna – NUI Galway
- Vedaschi, Arianna – Bocconi University
- Velasco Ibarra, Eugenio – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- Villarreal, Pedro A. – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Walker, Clive – University of Leeds
- Walsh, Rachael – Trinity College Dublin
- Yusingco, Michael – Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines