Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
As we look towards the pandemic's end, this article examines the pandemic's impacts on the international legal order through a gendered lens. It argues that in the short-term, the pandemic reinforces public-private divides in international law, reinvigorating previous debates over the state's power in social relations-its role in protecting people from, as opposed to perpetrating, harm. It argues that in the long-term, these developments threaten to unravel the most recent gains in international law and global governance that have operated to support and expand the recognition of human rights to marginalised groups. Left unaddressed, this unraveling will further entrench such divides and contribute to the further retreat of the liberal international order.
Recommended Citation
Shruti Rana,
Seismic Shifts: The COVID-19 Pandemic's Gendered Fault Lines and Implications for International Law, 39 Australian Yearbook of International Law 91
(2021).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/1312