{"id":2932,"date":"2022-03-22T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornellilj.org\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:27:49","slug":"the-covid-19-pandemic-and-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/2022\/03\/22\/the-covid-19-pandemic-and-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect States\u2019 obligations under international law? &nbsp;This is a question of not just academic interest but real importance for people\u2019s lives. After all, whether States abide by international law\u2014and whether international law is fit for purpose\u2014is vitally important for everyone from refugees exposed to the virus in unsanitary detention centers to national leaders fighting disinformation campaigns and safeguarding vaccine supply chains. &nbsp;International law has been central to the world\u2019s response to the pandemic from the start\u2014even if the participants did not always realize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect States\u2019 obligations under international law? &nbsp;This is a question of not just academic interest but real importance for people\u2019s lives. After all, whether States abide by international law\u2014and whether international law is fit for purpose\u2014is vitally important for everyone from refugees exposed to the virus in unsanitary detention centers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/cilj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}