Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2021.58.139.105
Corona ante portas and the "emergency constitution" in current politics and sports law
Petar Bačić
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
The sports sector is just one in a series of areas hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and measures taken by state authorities around the world against the spread of the deadly virus. The delays and cancellations of most sports competitions, starting with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through a series of other events of international, national and local significance, have once again highlighted the irreplaceable role and importance of coordinated policy and law action at all levels. This situation has revealed to us again the importance of the emergency constitution in public law, but also other legal clauses (force majeure) that will be confronted by sports federations, competition organizers, clubs and the participants themselves in an effort to address serious economic and financial challenges. and the consequences regarding legal obligations arising from contracts in the field of sponsorship, sale and transmission of sporting events, etc. In this text the author points to the existence of the emergency state constitution, its forms and examples in comparative constitutional law, as well as the nature of events monitored the emergence and operation of institutions in an attempt to protect society. One of the fundamental questions is whether the Republic of Croatia, using a de jure or de facto state of emergency, helped or hindered sports.
Keywords
emergency state constitution; reasons for declaring a state of emergency; sport; comparative constitutional law; Republic of Croatia Public Law
Hrčak ID:
252080
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Publication date:
9.2.2021.
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