Nome da Revista: Revista
de Direito Internacional
Classificação: A1
Dossiê Temático: International
Economic Law and the COVID-19 Sanitary Crisis
Prazo: 27/02/2021
Titulação: Não informada.
The Brazilian Journal of International Law invites submissions for a special issue on International Economic Law and the COVID-19 Sanitary Crisis, to be published in June 2021. The issue will be edited by Professors Hervé Ascensio (University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) and Julien Chaisse (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR).
Submissions on all aspects of International Economic Law and the COVID-19 Sanitary Crisis are welcome. The sanitary crisis has already impacted the world economy significantly, with the restriction on exports of sanitary materials, disruption of international transportation, strengthened screening of foreign investment and challenging of intellectual property rights in times of sanitary crisis. It has induced States to reassess their essential interests and national security, for instance in order to maintain a production capacity of medicines and vaccines. In addition, the lockdowns adopted in many countries has raised questions about their conformity with the existing free trade and investment treaties, and about the rational of exceptions and derogations in these treaties The economic implications of the crisis has resulted in massive stimulus packages by national governments which has resulted in burden of public exchequer and debt. The public debt to GDP ratio of most developed well as developing countries is also predicted by financial intuitions to increase drastically. The IMF, development banks, and other international financial institutions have been mobilized to meet the current and forthcoming financial needs of the most affected economies. These different themes deserve a legal discourse, focusing on the States’ novel responses and practices towards their economic relations and a possible shift to a new post-COVID-19 world economic order.