Dr. María Ballester Cardell, professor of Constitutional Law and deputy director of the Human Rights Lab (LIDIB), addressed the topic “Rights and freedoms and the health crisis” in the month of may’s workshop for Law professors and PhD students organized in the framework of the 2020-21 cycle of workshops.
With the end of Spain’s state of alarm, the autonomous communities assume the task of developing a legal framework that allows maintaining certain measures that until now have proved effective to protect public health. However, if regional authorities want to implement measures that entail a restriction of fundamental rights of an undetermined group, they must request authorization or ratification from the regional High Courts of Justice. In this context, Professor Ballester Cardell developed some reflections on the sufficiency and adequacy of the legal framework that the autonomous communities have at their disposal to respond to the health crisis, as well as on the challenges this situation poses in terms of fundamental rights and freedoms.