LIVESTREAM Public Law Responses to COVID-19

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What is the relationship between Commonwealth and state government responses to the Covid19 pandemic? States have responded differently to the pandemic, and we have seen Commonwealth-state co-operation through novel public law institutions such as the ‘National Cabinet’, as well as disagreement among Commonwealth and state governments in a range of key areas – especially in the context of education and the closure/opening of schools.  Ultimately we will ask whether federalism has made us safer, or simply more confused, as we confront the challenges raised by the pandemic.

Speakers:

• Professor Andrew Lynch, Head of School and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
• The Hon Adrian Piccoli, Director of the UNSW Gonski Institute for Education and Professor of Practice, School of Education, University of New South Wales
• Dr Tamara Tulich, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
• Dr Shipra Chordia, NSW Bar, G+T Centre Fellow

Chair:

• Professor George Williams, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

This Webinar is a joint initiative of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Gonski Institute for Education and the New Economic Policy Initiative at the University of New South Wales