COVID-19 pandemic and Contingency Law: some answers to an unfished proof

COVID-19 pandemic and Contingency Law: some answers to an unfished proof

Authors

  • Carla Amado Gomes Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48143/rdai.18.cag

Keywords:

COVID-19, state of exception, contingency law

Abstract

The pandemic caused by the spread of the coronavirus has profoundly derranged our habits of life and constitutes a socioeconomic challenge as we have not known in the post-World War II. Law, as a phenomenon of social regulation, was also put to the test, in its conformative and adaptive capacities. This text aims, on the one hand, to provide an overview of the responses of the Member States of the European Union to the constitutional problems posed by the need to manage the pandemic and, on the other hand, to point out aspects that should constitute lessons for the future.

Author Biography

Carla Amado Gomes, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Professora Associada da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Investigadora do Centro de Investigação de Direito Público e Professora Convidada da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto). E-mail: carlamadogomes@fd.ulisboa.pt | ORCID iD icon 0000-0002-6484-0549

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Published

2021-08-15

How to Cite

GOMES, Carla Amado. COVID-19 pandemic and Contingency Law: some answers to an unfished proof: COVID-19 pandemic and Contingency Law: some answers to an unfished proof. Journal of Public Law and Infrastructure | RDAI, São Paulo: Thomson Reuters | Livraria RT, v. 5, n. 18, p. 205–225, 2021. DOI: 10.48143/rdai.18.cag. Disponível em: https://rdai.com.br/index.php/rdai/article/view/393. Acesso em: 3 nov. 2024.

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Section

Foreign Doctrine | Doutrina Estrangeira