Theme page about Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic gave rise to new legislation and the use of emergency powers in Denmark and in the rest of the world. This influenced the activities at CECS, as several researchers were involved in projects exploring, among other things, the pandemic’s implications in the fields of constitutional law, EU law and legal culture. Professor Ulla Neergaard participated in a European research project on Covid-19 and European Solidarity, while professor Helle Krunke was a co-editor on an international e-book on different countries’ Covid-19 legislation, viewed in a constitutional law perspective. As a group, Sune Kling, Helle Krunke, Annemette Fallentin Nyborg and Jens Elo Rytter contributed to this publication as well as a Nordic comparative research project, mapping the Danish legislative response to the Covid-19 crisis. Meanwhile, Hin-Yan Liu, Matthijs Maas and Kristian Lauta explored lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic for the governance of future existential risks.

This research has lead to a number of publications on Covid-19. Furthermore, a Covid-19 theme was incorporated into the BA- courses Constitutional Law and EU-Constitutional Law: Institutions and EU Law. Professor Hanne Petersen produced a video on “Crises and Legal Cultures” for the Faculty’s Covid-19 website, and several students at the Faculty chose to write their master’s thesis on a topic related to Covid-19, under the supervision of researchers from CECS.