The COVID-19 Pandemic and Business Law: A Series of Posts from the Oxford Business Law Blog

Gert‐Jan Boon, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Horst Eidenmueller, L. Enriques, Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez, Kathryn Judge, J. Landau, M. Pagano, R. Reis, Kristin van Zwieten
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The COVID-19 Pandemic is the biggest challenge for the world since World War Two, warned UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, on 1 April 2020. Millions of lives may be lost. The threat to our livelihoods is extreme as well. Job losses worldwide may exceed 25 million. Legal systems are under extreme stress too. Contracts are disrupted, judicial services suspended, and insolvency procedures tested. Quarantine regulations threaten constitutional liberties. However, laws can also be a powerful tool to contain the effects of the pandemic on our lives and reduce its economic fallout. To achieve this goal, rules designed for normal times might need to be adapted to ‘crisis-mode’, at least temporarily. Business Laws in particular fulfil an important function in this context. Our livelihoods depend on how well businesses are able to navigate through the current crisis. Beginning in early February 2020, the Oxford Business Law Blog has published posts on how Business Laws could contribute to containing the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and on how they need (or need not) to be adapted to achieve the desired effect. This working paper collects the posts published throughout March in chronological order. Thematically, the focus is on finance, financial regulation and insolvency laws. This is not surprising as the most pressing problem businesses face right now is to manage their cash flow. We hope that the contributions in this paper inspire more work by scholars and help policymakers worldwide to adopt the right measures to reduce the damage caused by the Pandemic.
COVID-19大流行与商业法:牛津商业法博客系列文章
联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯于2020年4月1日警告说,2019冠状病毒病大流行是第二次世界大战以来世界面临的最大挑战。数百万人可能因此丧命。对我们生计的威胁也是极端的。全球失业人数可能超过2500万。法律体系也承受着极大的压力。合同中断,司法服务暂停,破产程序受到考验。检疫条例威胁到宪法自由。然而,法律也可以成为遏制大流行对我们生活的影响并减少其经济后果的有力工具。为了实现这一目标,为正常时期设计的规则可能需要适应“危机模式”,至少是暂时的。在这方面,商业法尤其发挥着重要作用。我们的生计取决于企业能否顺利度过当前的危机。从2020年2月初开始,牛津商业法博客就商业法如何有助于遏制COVID-19大流行的影响,以及如何需要(或不需要)调整商业法以实现预期效果发表了文章。这份工作报告按时间顺序收集了整个三月发表的帖子。在主题上,重点是金融、金融监管和破产法。这并不奇怪,因为企业目前面临的最紧迫的问题是管理现金流。我们希望本文的贡献能够激励学者开展更多的工作,并帮助世界各地的决策者采取正确的措施,减少大流行造成的损害。
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