e-Conference: International Law and the Clash of Rights

Session 2 of CIL’s e-Conference series on “COVID-19: A Challenge to the International Legal Order?”

This panel addressed current and future responses to global pandemics, and engaged in a wide-ranging discussion on the rights dimension of movement controls, surveillance, port closures, responses by international institutions and the interaction of different regimes under international law.

Moderator: Director-General Daphne Hong, Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers, Opening speaker: Professor Simon Chesterman,  Speakers: Professor Robert Beckman, Professor Photini Pazartzis and Ambassador Mahmoud Hmoud

Recorded live on Zoom on 6 May 2020.