Legal constraint in emergencies: Reflections on Carl Schmitt, the Covid-19 Pandemic and Singapore | Symposium on Covid-19 & Public Law

• Main Author: CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Covid-19; coronavirus; pandemic; emergency powers; legal constraint; constitutional law; Singapore; Asian Studies; Emergency and Disaster Management; Public Health; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3173; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5131/viewcontent/Legal_Constraints_Covid_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The controversial legal theorist Carl Schmitt’s challenge to the possibility of meaningful legal constraint on executive power in emergencies could not be more relevant in a world struggling to deal with Covid-19. Scrambling against time, governments around the world have declared states of emergenc...