Issue 1-2 of volume 8 of the journal The Theory and Practice of Legislation has been published online.
The guest editors, Ronan Cormacain and Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, have assembled a Special Issue dealing with various aspects of legislatures in the time of Covid-19. It counts with the following articles:
- Foreword for special issue on legislatures in the time of Covid-19 by Tom Ginsburg
- Introduction Legislatures in the Time of Covid-19 by Ronan Cormacain & Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
- Covid-19 meets politics: the novel coronavirus as a novel challenge for legislatures by Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
- Parliamentary oversight under the Covid-19 emergency: striving against executive dominance by Elena Griglio
- The COVID-19 emergency in the age of executive aggrandizement: what role for legislative and judicial checks? by Jan Petrov
- Governing in a pandemic: from parliamentary sovereignty to autocratic technocracy by Eric L Windholz
- Legislative response to Coronavirus (Switzerland) by Felix Uhlmann & Eva Scheifele
- COVID-19 legislation in Belgium at the crossroads of a political and a health crisis by Patricia Popelier
- Can legislative standards be subject to ‘quarantine’? The functioning of the Tablet Sejm in Poland in the COVID-19 era by Maciej Serowaniec & Zbigniew Witkowski
- COVID-19 in Hungary and Poland: extraordinary situation and illiberal constitutionalism by Tímea Drinóczi & Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
- 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 by Victor Marcel Pinheiro, Marcelo Ilarraz & Melissa Terni Mestriner
- America’s covid-19 preexisting vulnerability: a government of men, not laws by James R. Maxeiner