International Bar Association releases COVID-19 guidance
Aligning border control, customs, port entries and more can help the global fight against COVID-19, according to new guidance from the International Bar Association (IBA). The IBA COVID-19 Legal Policy Task Force has released a report detailing the pandemic’s impact in key legal areas and making concrete actionable recommendations to improve pandemic management in the future.
The IBA COVID-19 Task Force examined the impact of the pandemic on international legal systems, recognized the successes and failings of those systems in dealing with the outbreak and made practical recommendations for reforming existing laws or developing new ones to improve the global response to pandemics.