Asian Journal of Law and Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue
Coping with COVID-19:
Legal, Economic, and Policy Perspectives
DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special
issue “Coping with COVID-19: Legal, Economic, and Policy Perspectives.” Accepted papers
will be published in the December 2020 issue.

On Topics

How to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic is today’s paramount issue: doing so would
require coordination and collaboration from various fields. For related academic work, multi-
disciplinary approaches from law and economics and other related fields would only be natural.

AJLE will designate a special issue and will explore some of the challenging issues. Topics
that AJLE would consider include the following. Please note that the following list is only
suggestive and is not meant to be comprehensive. AJLE is open to submissions from lawyers,
economists, medical researchers, and scholars from many other areas. AJLE welcomes
submissions of articles containing creative and intriguing ideas.

 How to improve legal, economic and regulatory systems to prevent and control the
spread of SARS-CoV-2 more effectively;
 How to address legal and economic problems involving the use of digital tools for
contact tracing, quarantine monitoring, transmission mapping, computational
modeling, and other public health activities;
 How to deal with privacy, liberty, ethics, and other human rights challenges when
tracing contacts, releasing patients’ demographic information, implementing social
distancing, mounting aggressive measures such as lockdown or roadblock, or
engaging in other public health activities;
 How to allocate vaccines, personal protective equipment, and other medical
resources, internationally and domestically;
 How to deal with trade-offs among various legal, economic, public health, and ethical
values;
 How to incorporate fairness considerations in dealing with COVID-19;
  How to (re)structure public health systems in order to deal with COVID-19;
 How to address disparities in testing, treatment, and fatality for populations at risk;
and
 How to address the digital divide (the disparity of access to information devices
necessary for distance learning, telework, and e-commerce).

Guidelines for Submission

1. Submission should follow the guidelines that are available at AJLE’s URL. The
same URL should also be used for submission.

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ajle
2. An abstract of not more than 150 words should accompany each manuscript. The
abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and
major conclusions.
3. For inquiries, please e-mail asian.lawecon@gmail.com.