Pandemic and Beyond Episode 15: The COVID-19 Review Observatory
Description
COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on law making and legislative processes. Whilst the pandemic has heightened the imperative for governments to make new laws, the increase of law making, and the methods deployed, in the context of a public health crisis, has also made it uniquely challenging to scrutinise government legislation. How has oversight of government action worked over the past two years? And what are the implications for human rights? In this podcast, Ellie O’Keeffe hears from Professor Fiona De Londras and Research Fellow Daniella Lock (University of Birmingham) about the work and findings of the COVID-19 Review Observatory – a research project that studies how parliaments in Westminster, Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh are overseeing government responses.
United States
