In the ground-breaking book, The Spirit Level (2009), Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett showed that the more unequal a society, the greater its problems. What … Read more
Category: COVID19
How did we fail our most frail?
In times long before COVID, but not so long ago, a report was tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting of 2019. Written … Read more
On being haunted by your body
Trying to write a paper on the ontological possibilities of ‘disability’ as a concept in the middle of a global pandemic I find myself being … Read more
International Economic Law and COVID-19
1. Introduction International economic law (IEL), broadly defined, refers to the rules governing the cross-border movement of goods, people, technology and finance capital, as well as … Read more