Parliaments during the Emergency Regimes

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2020 the World woke up to a new reality: due to the dangers of Pandemic, majority of states are forced to change the rhythm of their lives and put it under the strict measures of emergency regime. The massive deployment of the states of emergency has itself put the need to analyse the legislature governing this institute high on the agenda, in Georgia as well as in the world. As the research has demonstrated, naturally, the state of emergency is announced differently depending on the models of governance, such as participation of various institutions in it or the differences of function allocation, however, at all stages the participation of the Parliament, as a controlling body is significant. The foregoing paper will investigate the state of emergency from the parliamentary perspective: the role of legislative body in this process and the threats, that may emerge when exercising governance, will be analysed.

Keywords

• state of emergency
• constitutional law
• role of the parliament
• parliamentary oversight
• human rights
• emergency powers
• pandemic and law
• covid-19 and law