{"id":25772,"date":"2021-03-03T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=25772"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"read-prof-balasubramaniams-new-work-on-how-covid-19-is-testing-constitutional-democracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2021\/read-prof-balasubramaniams-new-work-on-how-covid-19-is-testing-constitutional-democracies\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Prof. Balasubramaniam&#8217;s New Work on How Covid-19 is Testing Constitutional Democracies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Read Prof. Balasubramaniam&#8217;s New Work on How Covid-19 is Testing Constitutional Democracies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright wp-image-23990 size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Dr.-Ratna-Rueban-Balasubramaniam-512x428-1-240x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Dr.-Ratna-Rueban-Balasubramaniam-512x428-1-240x201.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Dr.-Ratna-Rueban-Balasubramaniam-512x428-1-160x134.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Dr.-Ratna-Rueban-Balasubramaniam-512x428-1-400x334.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Dr.-Ratna-Rueban-Balasubramaniam-512x428-1-360x301.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Dr.-Ratna-Rueban-Balasubramaniam-512x428-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In his March 2021 blog post for Verfassungsblog,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/verfassungsblog.de\/covid-19-malaysias-fragile-constitutional-democracy\/\">COVID-19: Malaysia\u2019s Fragile Constitutional Democracy<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balasubramaniam posits that the test implicates difficult questions about how far constitutional democracy can deliver on a very basic human good \u2014 survival and health. Beyond this, Balasubramaniam suggests that &nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam\u2019s complete blog post, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/verfassungsblog.de\/covid-19-malaysias-fragile-constitutional-democracy\/\">COVID-19: Malaysia\u2019s Fragile Constitutional Democracy<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/balasubramaniam-ratna-rueban\/\">research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his March 2021 blog post for Verfassungsblog,&nbsp;COVID-19: Malaysia\u2019s Fragile Constitutional Democracy,&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25782,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions\/25782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}