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The paper will look at the initial and subsequent Indian government's response to the COVID-19 focusing event. The strategy used to tackle the initial Covid-19 wave in India was copied from resource-rich countries and authoritarian countries and due to centralization bias in India's institutions, a monocentric response to the crisis was the default instead of cooperative solutions. However, the response to the pandemic should have been by multiple decision centers and based on local and institutional knowledge, considering India's institutions, culture, and state capacity, for a "Make-in-India"polycentric response. Solving large-scale health externalities requires coproduction to deal with nested externalities more effectively instead of monocentric global responses. I propose policy considering previous epidemic responses focusing on polycentric governance where civil society is incentivized. © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2023.
ABSTRACT
With the rise of online education as part of the college curriculum, numerous business and law schools have started offering courses online. The COVID-19 pandemic will also be a catalyst for more institutions of higher learning offering online or hybrid courses as part of their menu of choices. While there is a growing literature on teaching online, there is no information on the challenges that come with teaching an undergraduate online law and economics course. This paper deals with the development and challenges of teaching an online law and economics course and makes brief comparisons to a face-to-face course. The paper reflects on what was done in a recent online course with a focus on online discussions and reflects on what could be done in the future. © 2021 The Association of Law Teachers.