"The Lawlessness of C19" With Human Rights Attorney Dr Willem Van Aardt
Bottom line: You need to know your rights.
Bottom line: You need to know your rights.
And we know of no one more qualified or more adept at explaining them to you than Dr. Willem van Aardt, an International Human Rights and Constitutional Law specialist, who has been sounding the alarms on both the human rights and constitutional rights violations that have occurred over the last few years. Knowledge of both the law and our legal recourse is essential for ALL of us right now, and Dr. van Aardt puts it all in layman's terms for us in this episode. Dr. van Aardt brings his years of both studying and practicing law throughout the world and as a research fellow to his new book, Covid 19 Lawlessness, out now. https://amzn.to/3F26IPr
This was such a fascinating and informative conversation! This is not only an episode that you need to hear, but also one that you will want to share with a lot of your friends because we all need to KNOW OUR RIGHTS!
Most Recent Peer Reviewed Publications and Articles:
1 van Aardt, Willem. (2022) “Jus Cogens Norms, Public Policy and the Fiduciary Criterion of Morality” De Rebus SA Attorneys Journal. The Law Society of South Africa. July 2022. https://www.derebus.org.za/public-policy-jus-cogens-norms-and-the-fiduciary-criterion-of-legitimacy/
2 van Aardt, Willem. (2022) “The new era of COVID-19 legal paternalism and the limitation of fundamental human rights” De Rebus SA Attorneys Journal. The Law Society of South Africa. February 2022. Pp. 43-44. https://www.derebus.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DR_Journal_JanFeb_2022.pdf
3 van Aardt, Willem. (2022) “COVID-19 Mask Mandates for School Children - Following the Science or Impolitic?”. International J of Epidemiology and Public Health Research. January 2022. https://aditum.org/journals/international-journal-of-epidemiology-and-public-health-research/article-in-press/674 .
4 van Aardt, Willem. (2022) "COVID-19 Vaccine Passports: Derogating Non-Derogable Fundamental Human Rights." Medical Research Archives 10, no. 2 (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Passports: Derogating Non-Derogable Fundamental Human Rights | Medical Research Archives (esmed.org)
5 van Aardt, Willem. (2021) “Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination to Study-A Biomedical Ethical Analysis” Journal of Biology and Today's World. (2021) Volume 10, Issue 5. https://www.iomcworld.org/articles/proof-of-covid19-vaccination-to-studya-biomedical-ethical-analysis-81329.html
6 van Aardt, Willem. (2021) “Can government mandate the COVID-19 vaccine against your will? A discussion on international human rights law” De Rebus SA Attorneys Journal. The Law Society of South Africa. July 2021. Pp 14 -17. https://www.derebus.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DR_Journal_July_2021.pdf
7 van Aardt, Willem. (2021) “COVID-19 School Closures and the Principles of Proportionality and Balancing" (2021). J Infect Dis Ther 9: S3:002. https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/covid19-school-closures-and-the-principles-of-proportionality-and-balancing.pdf
8 van Aardt, Willem. (2021) “The Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination of School Children: A Bioethical and Human Rights Assessment,” J Vaccines Vaccin. 12: 452. https://www.longdom.org/open-access/the-mandatory-covid19-vaccination-of-school-children-a-bioethical-and-human-rights-assessment.pdf
9 van Aardt, Willem. (2021) "Limiting human rights during Covid-19- is it only legitimate if it is proportional" De Rebus SA Attorneys Journal. The Law Society of South Africa. May 2021. Pp 14 -16.http://www.derebus.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/DR_Journal_May_2021.pdf
10 van Aardt, Willem. (2020) “Separation of church and state: Making sense of freedom of religion under lockdown regulations” De Rebus SA Attorneys Journal. The Law Society of South Africa. November 2020. Pp 23 – 25.http://www.derebus.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DR_Journal_November_2020.pdf
11 van Aardt, Willem. (2020) “Are the stringent COVID-19 lockdown regulations unconstitutional and unjustifiable?” De Rebus SA Attorneys Journal. The Law Society of South Africa. September 2020. Pp 26 – 28. http://www.derebus.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DR_Journal_September_2020_1.pdf
LLD Thesis:
W. Van Aardt, “State responsibility for human rights abuses committed by non-state actors under the constitution”. PhD diss., North-West University, (2004). http://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/706
A huge thank you to Dr Van Aardt for sharing his wisdom, expertise, and time with us.
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