The Stellenbosch Consensus on the International Legal Obligation to Collaborate and Assist in Addressing Pandemics

Author:

Cinà Margherita M.1,Hoffman Steven J.2,Burci Gian Luca3,de Campos Thana Cristina4,Chirwa Danwood5,Dagron Stéphanie6,Eccleston-Turner Mark7,Forman Lisa8,Gostin Lawrence O.9,Habibi Roojin10,Meier Benjamin Mason11,Negri Stefania12,Ooms Gorik13,Sekalala Sharifah14,Taylor Allyn15,Yamin Alicia Ely16

Affiliation:

1. Research Fellow, Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, Canada margherita.cina@georgetown.edu

2. Director, Global Strategy Lab, and Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada steven.hoffman@globalstrategylab.org

3. Adjunct Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland gian-luca.burci@graduateinstitute.ch

4. Associate Professor of International Law, Human Rights and Global Bioethics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile thana.campos@gmail.com

5. Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa danwood.chirwa@uct.ac.za

6. Professor of Law, University of Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland stephanie.dagron@unige.ch

7. Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom m.r.eccleston-turner@keele.ac.uk

8. Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada lisa.forman@utoronto.ca

9. Professor and Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Georgetown Law, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., USA gostin@georgetown.edu

10. Research Fellow, Global Strategy Lab, and Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada e-mail: roojin.habibi@globalstrategylab.org

11. Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA meierb@email.unc.edu

12. Associate Professor of International Law, Department of Legal Sciences, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy snegri@unisa.it

13. Honorary Professor of Global Health Law & Governance, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom gorik.ooms@lshtm.ac.uk

14. Associate Professor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, School of Law, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom sharifah.sekalala@warwick.ac.uk

15. Professor, School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA allyntaylor99@gmail.com

16. Senior Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA ayamin@hsph.harvard.edu

Abstract

Abstract The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to potential global health emergencies such as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. While Article 44 of this binding legal instrument requires countries to collaborate and assist each other in meeting their respective obligations, recent events demonstrate that the precise nature and scope of these legal obligations are ill-understood. A shared understanding of the level and type of collaboration legally required by the ihr is a necessary step in ensuring these obligations can be acted upon and fully realized, and in fostering global solidarity and resilience in the face of future pandemics. In this consensus statement, public international law scholars specializing in global health consider the legal meaning of Article 44 using the interpretive framework of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

Publisher

Brill

Subject

Law,Political Science and International Relations,Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science

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