Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam
In his March 2021 blog post for Verfassungsblog, COVID-19: Malaysia’s Fragile Constitutional Democracy, Department of Law and Legal Studies Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam probes the ways in which Covid-19 is perhaps the first ever uniform test for constitutional democracies world-wide.
Balasubramaniam posits that the test implicates difficult questions about how far constitutional democracy can deliver on a very basic human good — survival and health. Beyond this, Balasubramaniam suggests that the test also reveals that a focus on this human good brings into play wider questions about rule of law, democracy, social justice, and human rights.
Balasubramaniam suggests that this blog post and the other posts about Covid-19 on Verfassungsblog are worth considering as scholars around the world work out patterns about the character and resilience of constitutional democracies in light of this first-of-a-kind test.
Read Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam’s complete blog post, COVID-19: Malaysia’s Fragile Constitutional Democracy, to learn more.
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