The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks

Author:

Habibi Roojin1,Hoffman Steven J.2,Burci Gian Luca3,de Campos Thana Cristina4,Chirwa Danwood5,Cinà Margherita6,Dagron Stéphanie7,Eccleston-Turner Mark8,Forman Lisa9,Gostin Lawrence O.10,Meier Benjamin Mason11,Negri Stefania12,Ooms Gorik13,Sekalala Sharifah14,Taylor Allyn15,Yamin Alicia Ely16

Affiliation:

1. Research Fellow, Global Strategy Lab, and Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada roojinhabibi@osgoode.yorku.ca

2. Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair in Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology, and Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org

3. Adjunct Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland gian-luca.burci@graduateinstitute.ch

4. Associate Professor of International Law, Human Rights and Global Bioethics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile thana.campos@gmail.com

5. Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa danwood.chirwa@uct.ac.za

6. Research Fellow, Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, Canada margherita.cina@georgetown.edu

7. Professor of Law, University of Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland stephanie.dagron@unige.ch

8. Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom m.r.eccleston-turner@keele.ac.uk

9. Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada lisa.forman@utoronto.ca

10. Professor and Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Georgetown Law, Georgetown, Washington D.C., USA gostin@georgetown.edu

11. Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA meierb@email.unc.edu

12. Associate Professor of International Law, Department of Legal Sciences, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy snegri@unisa.it

13. Honorary Professor of Global Health Law & Governance, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom gorik.ooms@lshtm.ac.uk

14. Associate Professor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, School of Law, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom sharifah.sekalala@warwick.ac.uk

15. Professor, School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA allyntaylor99@gmail.com

16. Senior Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA ayamin@hsph.harvard.edu

Abstract

Abstract The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to global health emergencies such as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Countries are permitted to exercise their sovereignty in taking additional health measures to respond to such emergencies if these measures adhere to Article 43 of this legally binding instrument. Overbroad measures taken during recent public health emergencies of international concern, however, reveal that the provision remains inadequately understood. A shared understanding of the measures legally permitted by Article 43 is a necessary step in ensuring the fulfillment of obligations, and fostering global solidarity and resilience in the face of future pandemics. In this consensus statement, public international law scholars specializing in global health consider the legal meaning of Article 43 using the interpretive framework of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

Publisher

Brill

Subject

Law,Political Science and International Relations,Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science

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