Panel Discussion: COVID-19 and State Responsibility: The Outbreak and Jurisdictional Challenges

Society for Constitutional Law & Human Rights is organizing an online panel discussion on "COVID-19 and State Responsibility: The Outbreak and Jurisdictional Challenges".

Background:

There is a growing clamour in some quarters to foist a legal battle against China over Covid-19. Several voices are arguing for reparations to affected populations across the world for the dangerous Novel Coronavirus that has caused deaths, large-scale hospitalizations, and never-seen-before state-induced quarantines.

This panel discussion stems from a wider perspective to determine, in the light of public international law, the possibility to hold States accountable for the various issues related to the pandemic. In particular, we will analyses whether international law provides any mechanism to hold any country accountable if proven that it has not taken the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of the new Coronavirus for which the whole world is suffering. we also look to analyses that, Is the premise to take China to court correct under international law, and more importantly, is it justified to blame China for the ongoing pandemic?

Panelists:

1. Aishwarya Dobhal (Advocate, Delhi High Court)2. Mohd. Shakeib Naru (Associate Lawyer at the Chamber of Sidharth Luthra, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India).3. Mridul Gupta (Associate, PLA Advocates, Regulatory Litigation, New Delhi).4. Dr. Ashish Verma (Associate Professor & Head, Department of Law and Social Sciences, UPES)5. Abhishek Mishra (Visiting Faculty, UPES)6. Ashutosh Tripathi (Assistant Professor, UPES)

Moderator:- Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh (Dean, School of Law, UPES).

Date: June 7, 2020

Timing: 4:00 PM

Registration link:https://bit.ly/sclhr16