{"product_id":"constitutional-resilience-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-perspectives-from-sub-saharan-africa-9783031064005","title":"Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn emergency situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a state has the right and duty under both international law and domestic constitutional law to take appropriate steps to protect the health and security of its population. Emergency regimes may allow for the suspension or limitation of normal constitutional government and even human rights. Those measures are not a license for authoritarian rule, but they must conform to legal standards of necessity, reasonableness, and proportionality that limit state action in ways appropriate to the maintenance of the rule of law in the context of a public health emergency. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together established and emerging African scholars from ten countries, this book looks at the impact government emergency responses to the pandemic have on the functions of the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, as well as the protection of human rights. It also considers whether and to what extent government emergency responses were consistent with international human rights law, in particular with the standards of legality, necessity, proportionality, and non-discrimination in the Siracusa Principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Constitutional Resilience and the Covid-19 PandemicDerek Powell and Ebenezer Durojaye\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. International Human Rights Norms and Standards on Derogation and Limitation of Rights during a Public EmergencyAdetoun Adebanjo and Ebenezer Durojaye\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Addressing Covid-19: A Test of Kenya’s Constitutional and Democratic ResilienceJosephat Muuo Kilonzo and Balla Galma\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Covid-19 and Zambia’s Constitutional DilemmaChristopher Phiri\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Constitutional Resilience and Limitation of Rights under Covid-19 Response in South SudanJoseph Geng Akech\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Constitutional Resilience in The GambiaSatang Nabaneh and Basiru Bah\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Walking a Tightrope: Balancing Human Rights and Public Health Measures during the Covid-19 Pandemic in NigeriaOlubayo Oluduro\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Constitutionality of Legal Measures Taken by the Government of Mauritius in the Context of the Covid-19 PandemicRoopanand Mahadew \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Constitutional and Human Rights Issues Arising from Covid-19: Uganda’s Youth in ContextRobert Doya Nanima\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The (Il)legality of Ghana’s Covid-19 Emergency Response: A CommentaryBright Nkrumah\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Constitutional and Human Rights Issues Arising from Covid-19 in South AfricaRobert Doya Nanima and Ebenezer Durojaye\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Zimbabwe’s Response to Covid-19 and its Socio-economic ImpactTinotenda Chidhawu","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516332040535,"sku":"9783031064005","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constitutional-resilience-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-perspectives-from-sub-saharan-africa-9783031064005","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}