Title: Public economic law constrained by the number(s)? About the pandemic crisis and its consequences

Authors: Habiba Bhouri

Addresses: University of Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, 6 Cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France

Abstract: Faced with this health crisis and this pandemic, state intervention seems necessary and even essential. Thus, in an urgent attempt to stem the large-scale economic crisis, the government has already put in place legal and financial measures to ensure maximum stability. It mainly concerns the status of companies and employees who are the first victims of this pandemic. Public health interventions have generally taken the form of several preventive public health regulations designed to curb the spread of disease and limit their economic and social impact. This public action, however, framed by the principles of international economic law and in particular European. The interest of the subject is to present the proliferation of figures which seem to constitute as much the basis as a constraint to public action in the economy, an attitude which seems to be justified by the unexpected scale of this health crisis.

Keywords: public economic law; coronavirus; emergency economic measures; competition; emergency social measures; regulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPLAP.2021.118893

International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 2021 Vol.7 No.4, pp.364 - 375

Received: 09 Apr 2021
Accepted: 20 Jul 2021
Published online: 09 Nov 2021 *

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