Title: Challenges and opportunities of business contracts in legislation of Ukraine during pandemic

Authors: Oksana Kiriiak; Liliana Sishchuk; Viktoriia Vasylieva; Nataliia Vintoniak; Oksana Оliinyk

Addresses: Faculty of Law, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine ' Laboratory of Corporate Law Problems, Academician F.H. Burchak Scientific and Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine ' Laboratory of Corporate Law Problems, Academician F.H. Burchak Scientific and Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine ' Laboratory of Corporate Law Problems, Academician F.H. Burchak Scientific and Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine ' Educational Scientific Law Institute, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to comprehensively consider the current issues in the field of optimising the contractual practice of business entities, which are determined by the spread of the pandemic in most countries, with the formulation of author's proposals for improving legislative regulation in this area. As a result of the conducted research, the authors concluded that in the conditions of unstable and unpredictable development of the situation regarding quarantine restrictions, legislative regulation of the procedure for concluding contracts, and the procedure for implementing fixed contractual requirements, legislative regulation should reach a qualitatively new level of legal regulation, for which the co-authors proposed a number of amendments to the text of current regulations in this area.

Keywords: agreements; contracts; civil law; business law; civil procedure; COVID-19.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPLAP.2022.124427

International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 2022 Vol.8 No.3/4, pp.283 - 297

Received: 11 Dec 2021
Accepted: 15 Feb 2022

Published online: 26 Jul 2022 *

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