Four years has passed since the pandemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) manifested how vulnerable societies can be toward public health risks, and how societies' safety is intertwined in this global society. Since then, under the auspice of the World Health Organization, governments worldwide have been reviewing their policies and infrastructures, hoping to be better prepared for any future pandemics. Some of these efforts involve statutory revisions, some of them not. Yet, if the legal system in each country represents the infrastructure of how governments can impose coercive powers upon its citizens facing public health risks, how has the law responded to these public health risks? How well have they done?
