Law in the time of COVID-19
As the world feels the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne Law School legal experts are responding to the resulting legal, ethical and policy challenges.
Analysis
Teaching
Melbourne Law School has developed new subjects in response to the legal, regulatory and ethical challenges arising from COVID-19.
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The COVID19 Assistance Project is a policy and research clinic that will operate in Semester 2, 2020.
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This subject brings together a number of relevant strands of law at the heart of pandemic response and the public health strategies that are deployed in the face of a global health crisis. It encompasses multiple areas of law, contextualised within historical precedents, human rights and public health law considerations.
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Health, trade, intellectual property and investment laws and norms interact in multiple ways, both to the benefit of health and to its detriment. This subject explores both the harmonies and the tensions across these critical areas of policy and governance at legal, normative, operational and institutional levels.
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This subject aims to provide a basic toolkit and skills to engage in deeper ethical reflection about the major debates in medical ethics and about advances in the biological and neurosciences.
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This subject will address a range of human rights in the health law area. Topical issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the human rights issues posed by it will be incorporated into the subject.
Research
MLS research centres and institutes are investigating COVID-19 from a variety of angles.
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Asian Legal Conversations
Focusing on Asia Pacific jurisdictions, our Asian Law Centre research compares experiences on issues raised or exacerbated by COVID-19, as well as country-specific issues.
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Health Law
Our Health Law and Ethics Network is responding to the important legal, policy and ethical questions raised by the pandemic.
Our number one priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our University community and we are doing everything we can to reduce the rates of infection in the community.