James on Public Health Emergencies

PhD student Kevin James authors book chapter on public health emergencies in India.

17 March 2025

Congratulations to PhD student member Kevin James, who has just published a chapter in the book Public Health and Federalism in India: Dissonant Discourses (Routledge, 2025), edited by Mohan Rao and Balveer Arora. Written towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the chapter is titled ‘Public Health Emergencies in India’. James tries here to think through what a new law for such emergencies should look like, framing and applying a set of questions drawn from scholarship and grounded in the Indian Constitution. It is an attempt to build the foundations and evaluative standards for such a law, and remains timely given the persisting inadequacies in India’s existing laws.