Announcement via email:

The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the journal Theory and Practice of Legislation are happy to invite you to a series of three webinars on Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus.

The first webinar will take place on  June 30, 2020 at 14.00 – 16.00 BST, featuring:

Chair: Professor Helen Xanthaki Dean of PGLaws, University of London, President of the International Association of Legislation

Speakers:

• Emergency Legislation in Belgium at the crossroads of a political and a health crisis
  Professor Patricia Popelier, University of Antwerp
• Quasi-State of Emergency: Assessing the Constitutionality of Ghana’s Legislative Response to Covid-19
  Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Faculty of Law, KNUST, Ghana
• Legislative Response to Coronavirus Switzerland
  Professor Felix Uhlmann , University of Zurich
• COVID-19 Legislation in the Light of the Precautionary Principle
  Professor Klaus Messerschmidt, Humboldt University of Berlin and Friedrich-Alexander-Universitär Erlangen-Nürnberg
• The Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Brazilian Legal System – A Report on the Functioning of the Branches of the Government and on the Legal Scrutiny of Their Activities
  Dr Marcelo Ilarraz, Victor Pinheiro and Melissa Terni Mestrine
• COVID-19 in Hungary and Poland: extraordinary situation and illiberal constitutionalism 
  Professor Tímea Drinóczi, University of Pécs and Dr Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu 

Participation in the event is free, but requires registration.

For further details and registration, please see:

https://www.biicl.org/events/11401/global-legislative-responses-to-coronavirus