1st Edition
Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19
This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Although efforts towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals are ongoing, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on these efforts: accentuating inequities, as well as absorbing resources. This book addresses this impact, as it takes up the question of how to ensure global recovery – in line with the target for the Sustainable Development Goals – after the pandemic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, but focusing particularly on the role of law and legal frameworks in this recovery, the book considers the effect of the pandemic on key industries such as shipping, insurance, manufacturing, and banking, as well as on the role of the State and non-State actors. Pursuing an explicitly Global South perspective, the book maintains that in the post-COVID era it is the elaboration a rule of law framework that is in sync with both the Global North and South that is crucial if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved.
This book will be of value to scholars, students and policymakers working in the general area of law and development, but especially those with specific interests in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Introduction: The Imperative of Law for Sustainable Development in the Post-Covid Era
Augustine Edobor Arimoro, Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe and Tamaraoudoubra Tom Egbe
Part 1. Sustainability Through Policy, Finance and Law
1: Sustainable Fashion Post the Covid-19 Pandemic: Environmental Perspectives
Alessia Vacca
2: Financial Inclusion as a Human Right in Nigeria
Igho L Dabor
3: Preserving Employee Rights in Pandemic Situations: A Pathway to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
Akinyemi Akintunde Abibu
Part 2. Health, Environment and Human Rights
4: Legal Discourse in the Light of Post Covid-19 Pandemic: Human Rights, Health and Wellness Management to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals
Bhupinder Singh
5: Legal Evaluation of Sustainable Development vis-à-vis Law and Development: Perspectives of Covid-19
Livinus I. Nwokike
6: Revising the “Shadow Pandemic”: Sustainable Development Goal No. 5, Gender, Equality and Covid-19
Dawn Sedman
Part 3. Trade, Transport and Infrastructure
7: Sukuk for Sub-Saharan African Infrastructure Post Covid-19
Augustine Edobor Arimoro, Habibah Musa and Abbah Amsami Elgujja
8: Financing the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in the Post Covid-19 Era Towards Sustainability: An Overview of China’s Green Bond Rules
Meihui Zhang, Chi Zhang, Fenghua Li and Ziyu Liu
9: Navigating Post Covid-19 Realities: The Changing Landscape of International Carriage of Goods by Sea
Tamaraoudoubra Tom Egbe
Part 4. Intellectual Property and Sustainable Technology
10: Sustainable Fashion and Recycling of Intellectual Property Law Beyond the Covid-19 Era
Hiroko Onishi
11: Is the Trips Covid-19 Decision a Mere Re-Echo of the Powers of WTO Member states to Issue Compulsory Licences?
Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe
12: Post-Covid 19 Recovery and Sustainable Development: An Insurance Perspective
Senara Eggleton
Biography
Augustine Edobor Arimoro is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Roehampton Law School, University of Roehampton London, UK.
Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe is Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield School of Law, UK.
Tamaraoudoubra Tom Egbe holds a Lectureship in Law at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
