Recorded November 11, 2020

This is the final talk in our three-part series, COVID and Constitutions, which explores how the current pandemic challenges national and international legal orderings. This week, Professors Chuan-feng Wu, Wen-Tsong Chiou, and Trang Nguyen talk about why Taiwan and Vietnam have succeeded in containing the virus more successfully than most other nations, at least so far. Are their achievements sui generis, or are there lessons for other governments in the ways their constitutional and legal systems allocate authority in a public health crisis?