coronacrisis

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

COVID-19: Prisons as Public Health Risks

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the public health risks that prisons pose as reservoirs of contagious disease. Confinement involves close contact and shared facilities, which is inherently a risk factor for contagions.

Chase Burton • 28-05-2020

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Corona crisis-related inequality in access to university education in Eastern Indonesia

How can students participate in online courses without proper Internet access?

Jacqueline Vel • 22-05-2020

Public Law

Rule of law conditionality in EU spending: Time to pull the plug on illiberalism

Illiberal leaders in Poland and Hungary are using Covid-19 to consolidate their powers and violate EU values. Could the Union’s budget be used as leverage to force them to comply with the rule of law?

Amandine van Zuylen • 13-05-2020

Public Law

How to exit the exit? Corona crisis during social unrest

In some countries the COVID-19 pandemic has put protests and social unrest on hold. How should lockdown exit strategies in those countries take special account of human rights standards?

Carolina Flores • 12-05-2020

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

The precarisation of sex workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sex workers around the world are unable to work because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have turned to digital sex work but many are in increasingly precarious situations and are excluded from receiving support from their governments.

Hannah DeLacey • 10-05-2020

Private Law

Schuldenrechters en de coronacrisis

Insolventierechters kunnen een creatieve en actieve rol gaan vervullen om de schade van de (nasleep van de) coronacrisis te beperken, ook voor particulieren.

Nick Huls • 06-05-2020

Public Law

Ensuring the right to education in times of COVID-19

The right to education is a human right. State measures to combat the corona crisis mean that 1.2 billion students are affected by school closures worldwide. Could education systems have prepared better?

Aliona Normandin • 01-05-2020

Private Law

Corona, krediet en kapitalisme

De coronaciris heeft grote invloed op ons financieel-economisch bestel en test de grenzen ervan. Zo ook het bankbedrijf.

Matthias Haentjens • 17-04-2020

Public Law

The right to Internet as the right to health? Obligations to remove barriers to the access of information during a pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic is an issue of public health. But with states putting unreasonable barriers to the access of information and effective communication, it is equally an issue of ensuring the protection of fundamental freedoms and human rights during such crisis.

Madeeha Majid • 16-04-2020

Blogs

COVID-19: Prisons as Public Health Risks

Corona crisis-related inequality in access to university education in Eastern Indonesia

Rule of law conditionality in EU spending: Time to pull the plug on illiberalism

How to exit the exit? Corona crisis during social unrest

The precarisation of sex workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Schuldenrechters en de coronacrisis

Ensuring the right to education in times of COVID-19

Corona, krediet en kapitalisme

The right to Internet as the right to health? Obligations to remove barriers to the access of information during a pandemic