Climate and environmental approaches in the United States and Canada at the outbreak of the 2020 pandemic
Pasquale Viola ABSTRACT The essay deals with the issues triggered by environmental policies and Covid-19 pandemic in the United States and Canada. The analysis starts with an outline of the environmental law systems and the main responses to the pandemic, then emphasizing the focal legal concerns about the emergency measures and environmental policies. The last […]
The impact of Covid-19 crisis on the French law of contract
Olivier Deshayes The effect of the Covid-19 on contracts comes not as much from the virus itself than from the containment measures imposed by Governments which made it hard, if not impossible, for debtors to perform their obligations. This is why the crisis, as regards contracts, really started in France in the midst of […]
The Impact of Covid-19 in German Contract Law
Christian Johannes Wahnschaffe ABSTRACT Table of contents I. Covid-19 as an Impediment to Performance under German Contract Law I.1. Impossibility of Performance I.2. Disproportionality of Performance and Fundamental Change of Circumstances I.3. Contractual Remedies II. Contemporary Legislative Responses in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic II.1. Temporary Moratoriums on “Essential” Continuous Obligations, Art. 240 […]
Covid-19 pandemic and Greek Contract Law
Zafeirios N. Tsolakidis ABSTRACT Table of contents I. The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact in contracts II. General Contract Law Provisions II.1. Impossibility II.2. Debtor’s default II.3. Creditor’s default III. New regulatory provisions III.1. Contracts of Lease III.2. Commercial papers III.3. Flights, sea trips and travels III.V. Employment Contracts IV. Pandemic and contractual clauses IV.1. […]