Global Trade and Investment in the Coronavirus Era
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The global coronavirus pandemic has changed the way different corners of the world interact with each other, perhaps forever. Nowhere is this more true than the global economy, where a decade's long trend toward the easier exchange of trade and investment was already under increasing political pressure when the pandemic broke. It may now be facing a truly unprecedented set of challenges. To discuss how the global trade and investment systems are being impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, Scott R. Anderson spoke to three legal experts who have a wealth of private and public sector experience between them: Julian Arato of Brooklyn Law School, Kathleen Claussen of the University of Miami School of Law and Ben Heath, currently at NYU School of Law, and soon to be of the Temple University Beasley School of Law.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.1 | When we think about the virus mitigation measures, right, measures being taken like lockdowns, |
| 0:39.4 | closures of businesses, restrictions on movement of people, things like that, you know, if these |
| 0:45.9 | things go to dispute resolution, sociologically, it's hard for me to imagine that a tribunal |
| 0:51.6 | is going to say that these weren't necessary to a legitimate aim of protecting public health, |
| 0:56.1 | right? |
| 0:57.1 | I mean, first of all, it seems pretty obvious that there's a public health aim out there. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, the question of necessity is a little bit tricky sometimes it can be quite restrictive, |
| 1:07.3 | but in this context where the emergencies so obvious, it seems unlikely to me that ex-post |
| 1:14.2 | tribunals are going to start kind of questioning whether states were really doing strictly |
| 1:19.8 | necessary actions, given the zone of uncertainty everybody's in, right? |
| 1:24.2 | The other side of this is that everybody's taking these actions. |
| 1:27.0 | This isn't just a disease in one country, this is something affecting every country in |
| 1:30.9 | the world. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm Scott R. Anderson and this is the LawFair podcast for May 15, 2020. |
| 1:39.8 | The global coronavirus pandemic has changed the way different corners of the world interact |
| 1:44.0 | with each other, perhaps forever. |
| 1:46.3 | Nowhere is this more true than the global economy, where a decade's long trend towards the |
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