Coronavirus and the Law in Europe

On 30 January 2020, in response to the globalisation of COVID-19, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The deadly outbreak has caused unprecedented disruption to travel and trade and is raising pressing legal questions across all disciplines, which this book attempts to address.The aims of this book are twofold. First, it is intended to serve as a toolbox for domestic and European judges. They will soon be dealing with the interpretation of COVID-19-related legislation and administrative measures, as well as the disruption the pandemic has caused to society and fundamental rights.Second, it aims to assist businesses and citizens who wish to be informed about the implications of the virus in the existence, performance and enforcement of their contracts.Coronavirus and the Law in Europe is probably the largest academic publication on the impact of pandemic on the law. This academic endeavour is a joint, collaborative effort to structure the recent and ongoing legal developments into a coherent and pan-European overview on coronavirus and the law. It covers practically all European countries and legal disciplines and comprises contributions from more than 80 highly reputed European academics and practitioners.

Ewoud Hondius read law in Leyden and New York (Columbia). He received
a doctorate from Leyden and honorary degrees from Edinburgh and Leuven.
He is Emeritus Professor of European Private Law at the University of Utrecht.
Previously, he was a Visiting Professor in Cambridge, Kyoto, Münster, Paris
and Sydney. He has written several books on private and consumer law.
He is a membre titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law
and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Marta Santos Silva , PhD in Laws, is Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at
Maastricht University, affiliated senior researcher at the Institute for Consumer,
Competition & Market at KU Leuven and appointed Member of the Expert
Group on Liability and New Technologies of the European Commission.
She received the Europa Prize 2008 for notable academic achievements in several Member States of the European Union. She has been working in academic and policy pan-European projects for the harmonisation of European Private Law since 2005 and has a vast international experience in teaching and academic management.

Andrea Nicolussi is Full Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the
Catholic University of Milan, where he teaches comparative private law and
family law. His published works focus on unjustified enrichment, contract law
and tort law, as well as biolaw and family law. He has taken part in international
collaborations such as the Study Group on a European Civil Code and the
Eusoco project and was a member of the National Bioethics Committee.

Pablo Salvador Coderch is Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Renowned for his work in the field of Private Law, he
is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American
Law Institute, the European Law Institute and Academia de Jurisprudència
i Legislació de Catalunya.

Christiane Wendehorst is Full Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna.
She is founding member and President of the European Law Institute (ELI)
and chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is
member of the Academia Europea, the International Academy for Comparative
Law, the American Law Institute as well as of the Austrian Bioethics Committee
and the Executive Board of the Austrian Jurists' Forum (ÖJT). Prior to moving
to Vienna, she held chairs in Göttingen and Greifswald and was Director of
the Sino-German Institute of Legal Studies.

Fryderyk Zoll is Full Professor at the Department of Civil Law at the Jagiellonian
University and at the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of
Osnabrück. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ternopil
and was honoured with the Private Law Prize at the IX St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (Shortlist, 2019) and the Medal Bene Merentibus Iustitiae (2013). He is a member of the European Law Institute and the international association for the judicial independence and world peace.