Current Institute research on the coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19 affected all aspects of life in 2020. Legislation enacted as a result of the pandemic encroaches on the personal lives of all people and poses wholly new challenges to authorities, organizations and commercial enterprises. What does this mean for the legal relationships governed by private law? What answers can international comparative law provide? What role does foundational legal research play in devising new solutions?
In recent months, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law have shown the extent to which basic research can contribute to the clarification of current and long-term issues.
“COVID-19 has demonstrated the role of scientific inquiry and the communication of scientific findings. Numerous research achievements from the past year have, furthermore, proven that the pandemic is by no means a topic exclusive to the fields of medicine or the natural sciences. Our contribution in this regard is the product of a many-voiced international team,” explains Institute Director Ralf Michaels.
Institute researchers have initiated a series of academic gatherings on the legal consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, launched projects and published papers. The current overview illustrates the range of subjects covered.
News, lectures, and publications
Elena Dubovitskaya
Senior Research Fellow
Elena Dubovitskaya, What Can We Learn From the Fully Virtual Shareholder Meetings That Have Taken Place During the Corona Pandemic? Latest Thinking, 27.11.2020
https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10861
Ruth Effinowicz
Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre of Expertise on Japan
Harald Baum
Affiliate, former Head of the Centre of Expertise on Japan
Information on the event and videos of the lectures
Mateusz Grochowski
Senior Research Fellow
Matteusz Grochowski: Covid-19 Litigation
Participation in the project Fundamental Rights In Courts and Regulation (FRICoRe)
https://www.fricore.eu/fc/content/covid-19-litigation
Ben Gerrit Köhler
Senior Research Fellow
Ben Gerrit Köhler, Thomas John, Rishi Gulati: COVID-19, International organisations and force majeure
Virtual lecture on 02.04.2020
Ben Köhler, Global sales law in a global pandemic: The CISG as the applicable law to the EU-AstraZeneca Advance Purchase Agreement?, Conflict of Laws, 05.02.2021
https://conflictoflaws.net/2021/global-sales-law-in-a-global-pandemic-the-cisg-as-the-applicable-law-to-the-eu-astrazeneca-advance-purchase-agreement/
Ralf Michaels
Institute Director
Jakob Olbing
Research Associate
Jan Peter Schmidt
Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law
Conversation with Jan Peter Schmidt about his post-doctoral presentation at the University of Regensburg on 30.07.2020: Controversy on the Legal Consequences of the COVID-19 Crisis
Jan Peter Schmidt: Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Krise auf das Vertragsrecht
Virtual lecture at the online annual conference of the Deutsch-Brasilianische Juristenvereinigung e.V. on 21.11.2020
Jan Peter Schmidt: Estate Planning in Times of COVID-19
Virtual lecture at the online world conference of the International Society of Family Law: „Family Law and Crisis – Going Through Pandemics“, 26.-28.08.2020
Philipp Scholz
Senior Research Fellow
Denise Wiedemann
Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre of Expertise on Latin America
Denise Wiedemann, Kollisionsrechtliche Folgeprobleme der Stellvertreterehe, Zeitschrift für Standesamtswesen 2021, Heft 2 (forthcoming)
Guest lectures
Matthias Lehmann: COVID-19 und IPR/IZPR
Virtual lecture on 02.06.2020 in the context of the event series "Current Research in Private International Law"
Somoud Damiri, Bassam Shahatit: COVID-19: implications for the application of family law in MENA countries
Virtual panel discussion on 01.07.2020 in the context of the event series „Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law“
Video of talk by Somoud Damiri
Video of talk by Bassam Shahatit
Marc-Philippe Weller: Nationalismus, Territorialismus und Unilateralismus: Pandemiebewältigung durch IPR?
Virtual lecture on 01.12.2020 in the context of the event series "Current Research in Private International Law"
