Confusion of circumstances: observations on the decision of the Constitutional Council of March 26, 2020 on the health emergency organic law

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confusion of circumstances; French Constitutional Council; health emergency organic law; covid-19 epidemic; France.

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the decision of the French Constitutional Council of March 26, 2020 on the health emergency organic law, promulgated in France to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic, in order to verify whether in this case the Council acknowledges deciding less in law than in pure opportunity.

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Pierre Brunet, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Professeur à l’Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France). Docteur en droit (Université Paris-Nanterre). E-mail: [email protected]

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CONSEIL CONSTITUTIONNEL. Décision n° 2020-799 DC du 26 mars 2020, Loi organique d'urgence pour faire face à l'épidémie de covid-19.

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2020-12-29

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BRUNET, P. Confusion of circumstances: observations on the decision of the Constitutional Council of March 26, 2020 on the health emergency organic law. Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 11, n. 3, p. 213–222, 2020. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucpr.br/direitoeconomico/article/view/29982. Acesso em: 11 dec. 2024.

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2020): September/December

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