1st Edition

Outsmarting the Next Pandemic What Covid-19 Can Teach Us

Edited By Elizabeth Anne Kirley, Deborah Porter Copyright 2021
322 Pages 5 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 5 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 5 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks. Focusing on a number of countries most expected to provide agility and organization in their crisis response – the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Taiwan – the book shows how failures in... Read more

Introduction

Elizabeth Kirley and Deborah Porter

Part I: Healthcare

Chapter 1- How Smart is COVID?

Elizabeth Kirley and Deborah Porter

Chapter 2- Nothing About Me Without Me: Rationing and End-of-Life Decision-Making During a Pandemic 

Sharyn Milnes, Lisa Mitchell, Neil Orford, Deborah Porter, and Nicholas Simpson

Chapter 3- Decisions in the Maternity Unit: COntainment in Taiwan and Canada

Li-Yin Chien and Su-Chen Liao with Julie Doldersum

Part II: Leadership 

Chapter 4: Designed for Disruption: Fractured Supply Chains and Politicised Global Trading

Stephen Wilks

Chapter 5-  Leadership vacuum and mask deniers

Elizabeth Kirley and Marilyn McMahon

Chapter 6- Hard Lessons: Long-term Care Homes as Hot Spots in Australia

Joseph Ibrahim

Part III: Security

Chapter 7- Intellectual Property Protections for Vaccines and PPE

Ana Santos Rutschman

Chapter 8- How Do You Self-Isolate with Nowhere to Live?

Carolyn Whitzman

Chapter 9- From Crisis to Sanctuary: Prisoners in Peril During COVID

Michael A. Crystal, Jacob Medvedev, and Peter Ketcheson

Part IV: Education and Technology

Chapter 10- Will Going Online Save or Sink the Traditional University System? 

William H. Dutton

Chapter 11- Chatbots can teach us to detect fake news during COVID

Jacky Visser and Elena Musi

Chapter 12- Technology’s Greatest Gift to the Voyeur: Webcams in the K-12 Classroom

David Guida

Conclusion: What COVID Can Teach

Elizabeth Kirley and Deborah Porter

Biography

Elizabeth Anne Kirley is a professor in the Master of Laws program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. She holds JD (Western), LLM (Osgoode), and PhD (Osgoode) degrees and is called to the Ontario Bar. Elizabeth has served as Assistant Crown Attorney, Children's lawyer, and criminal defense counsel. Her research involves reputational privacy, digital crime, and pandemic law.

Deborah Porter holds an LLB from the University of Western Australia and was previously a registered nurse. She is passionate about health law and was a lecturer in the School of Medicine and the School of Law, Deakin University. Deborah is Legal Educator in end-of-life communication for the iValidate program, Barwon Health, Australia.