Healing the Law on International Organizations: Some Lessons from the Pandemic - Eyal Benvenisti
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Thu 5 May 2022
14:00-16:00
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The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents
Healing the Law on International Organizations: Some Lessons from the Pandemic
Professor Eyal Benvenisti, Whewell Professor of International Law, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fact that public health in a global economy is bound up with multi-layered factors—environmental, economic, social, political, cultural, and moral—that generate conflicting perceptions and preferences among, and within, nations. The pandemic also exposed the fact that international organizations designed to address global health governance are not sufficiently resilient to inter- and intra-state competition and conflict, and their failings contributed to the dismal responses to the virus. But the pandemic is also giving us clues as to the direction – or indeed directions – in which global health governance may best evolve to deliver effective responses to global crises. In this paper I analyse the failures of inter-state and inter-organization collaborations during the Covid-19 pandemic. I expose the background norms of international law that permit, if not encourage, such failures. My aim is to reflect on the necessary legal infrastructure that could facilitate successful and sustainable inter-state and inter-organization collaboration in the context of health and other global challenges.
About the speaker (Source: University of Cambridge)
Eyal Benvenisti is the Whewell Professor of International law and the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He was Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (from 2002) and Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of Law at the Hebrew University (from 1990). He was Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (since 2003). He was Visiting Professor at Yale, Harvard, Toronto, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and gave a special course at The Hague Academy of International Law (2013). Eyal’s areas of research and teaching are international law, constitutional law and administrative law. He was Project Director for the “GlobalTrust – Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity” research project, funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (2013-2018).
Professor Benvenisti is the recipient of several prizes including the Humboldt Research Award and the Francis Deak Prize. He is a Member, Institut de droit international (2011) and a co-Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law. He was on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law (2009-2018), and International Law in Domestic Courts. Eyal’s most recent publications include: Between Fragentation and Democracy: The Role of National and International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with George W. Downs), and The Law of Global Governance, in the Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law (2014; issued also as a “pocket book” in the Hague Academy series), and Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity: On the Accountability of States to Foreign Stakeholders, 107 AM. J. INT’L. L. 295 (2013). He is a member of the Israeli Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
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