2020 A Year of Disasters in Review - Legal Assessments under International Disaster Law - Live Webinar - 25 February 2021

'2020 A Year of Disasters in Review. Legal Assessments under International Disaster Law' to the held on Thursday 25 February at 10.30-13.45 CET time. It will be managed by the Yearbook of International Disaster Law and the ASIL Disaster Law Interest Group and aim to provide a preliminary review of relevant practice in the area of International Disaster Law for 2020, a critical year for the International Community affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and other disasters. 

Session I - 10.30-12.15 (CET) Introductory Remarks ‘Of Pandemics and other Disasters: A Survey of Legal Issues Raised in 2020’ (Giulio Bartolini, Editor-in-Chief YIDL, Roma Tre University and Jean Braudel Senior Fellow, EUI)

Thematic Areas - Chair: Dug Cubie (University College Cork, Editor YIDL) Gender and Disasters (Gabrielle Simm, University of Technology Sydney); International Health Law (Stefania Negri, University of Salerno); Climate Change Law (Rosemary Lyster, University of Sydney); Disaster Risk Reduction (Marie Aronsson-Storrier, University of Reading); Development within the UN system (Emanuele Sommario, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa); Migration/Refugee Law (Matthew Scott, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law); Space Law (Diego Zannoni, University of Padova) Q&A Session

Session II - 12.15-13.45 (CET) Regional and National Perspectives - Chair: Tommaso Natoli (University College Cork – Head of the Editorial Committee) Africa and MENA Regions (Nicholas Wasonga Orago, University of Nairobi); Europe (Federico Casolari, University of Bologna); Pacific (John Hopkins, University of Canterbury); Polar Regions (Stefan Kirchner, University of Lapland); South America (Marcos Nelio Mollar, University of Buenos Aires and Universidad Católica Argentina); Philippines (Pauline Caspellan-Arce, IFRC); United States of America (Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller, Millersville University); - Q&A Session