Alasdair Phillips-Robins

Guest Author

Alasdair Phillips-Robins (@alasdairpr) is a second-year student at Yale Law School, where he is a Hansell Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges and a member of the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic.

Articles by this author:

Noxious weeds grow around a Lake Mendocino boat ramp as the water level dropped to 29% capacity on June 2, 2021, near Ukiah, California.

A Pandemic Isn’t the Only Kind of “Catastrophic Risk.” It’s Time to Prepare More Seriously for the Next.

Jun. 15, 2021 Nikita Lalwani, Alasdair Phillips-Robins and 1 more

World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme head Michael Ryan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Technical lead head Covid-19 Maria Van Kerkhove attend a press conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, on July 3, 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. They do not wear face masks, but their seats are social distant from one another.

COVID-19 and International Law Series: Reforming the World Health Organization

Dec. 11, 2020 Oona A. Hathaway and Alasdair Phillips-Robins

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), holds a virtual briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic. His briefing is viewed on an iPad, and a separate computer screen behind the iPad shows a 3-D rendering of the coronavirus with the words, “Coronavirus (COVID-19)”

COVID-19 and International Law Series: WHO’s Pandemic Response and the International Health Regulations

Dec. 8, 2020 Oona A. Hathaway and Alasdair Phillips-Robins

An engineer-virologist looks at 24 well plates adherent cells monolayer infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus.

COVID-19 and International Law Series: Vaccine Theft, Disinformation, the Law Governing Cyber Operations

Dec. 4, 2020 Oona A. Hathaway and Alasdair Phillips-Robins

Children workers who come from Burkina Faso carry sacks of cocoa to a truck June 28, 2001 in Petit Tieme, Ivory Coast.

Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: The Prohibitions on Slavery, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Meet the Sosa Test

Nov. 23, 2020 Oona A. Hathaway, Christopher Ewell and 3 more

Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) test for COViD-19 at Abyssinian Baptist Church.

COVID-19 and International Law Series: Introduction

Nov. 10, 2020 Oona A. Hathaway, Preston Lim and 2 more