The Impact of Covid-19 in Chilean Contract Law
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, Alberto Pino Emhart ABSTRACT Table of contents I. Introduction II. Administrative regulations enacted to deal with the crisis 1. Consumer contracts and SERNAC’s directives 2. Consumer credits and CMF’s directives 3. Construction contracts with the State 4. CGR and contracts with the State. Dictamen No. 6854-20 5. Chile Compra and contracts with […]
The Impact of the Health Emergency on Contract Law: National Report Peru
Daniel Ugarte Mostajo, Raúl F. Zúñiga ABSTRACT Table of contents I. Peruvian contract law provisions dealing with circumstances interfering with contractual performance 1. General framework 2. Impossibility of performance due to unforeseen circumstances or force majeure 3. Excessive onerousness of the performance or hardship 4. The disputed application of the frustration of purpose II. Application […]
An overview of the colombian contract law, in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
Isué Natalia Vargas Brand ABSTRACT This paper notes the potential contract law rules applicable in the Colombian legal system to contracts affected by the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, it points out the different temporary Decrees enacted by the Colombian government to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in Contract Law. KEYWORDS […]
The Impact of Covid-19 in Mexican Contract Law
Edgardo Muñoz, Romina Guarneros ABSTRACT Table of contents I. Introduction II. Administrative regulations enacted and private stakeholders’ initiatives to encourage or force contract performance in times of Covid-19 2.1. The main Federal Directive by the Federal Health Secretariat 2.2. Real estate and business loan contracts with banks 2.3. Housing and business lease agreements 2.4. […]
Environmental Law in the Middle East and North Africa
Zainab Lokhandwala ABSTRACT This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region against the backdrop of two themes: climate action and human rights. In the climate context, the renewable energy sector will certainly suffer in the immediate aftermath of Covid 19. At the same time, […]
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. […]