The Lex-Atlas: Covid-19 (LAC19) project provides over 45 scholarly country reports and analysis of national legal responses to Covid-19.  The selected countries span all continents.

Each report follows the structure outlined in the Author Guidance Code (AGC).  Following the publication of each report, members of the LAC19 team have data-mined relevant information, based on questions contained in the AGC.  Such data-mined and coded information is presented here, in three unique datasets.  We rely on the structure of the AGC, the editing process, and hand coding by our team to produce high-quality, cross-country data sources.

Each dataset allows the comparative analysis of national responses to Covid-19.  For each country, we present the questions being asked, the coding assigned, and notes explaining each coding.  We believe this condensed and simplified overview of the country reports will be helpful to legal scholars, policymakers, and parliamentary staff.

Datasets

Emergency Powers Dataset
The rapid response to the pandemic in countries around the globe made the use of emergency powers both essential and attractive for governments. The Author Guidance Code (AGC) asked authors to answer a range of questions in their country reports. In responding to the pandemic, countries took variati…
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Federalism Data
The rapid response to the pandemic in countries around the globe made the use of emergency powers both essential and attractive for governments. The Author Guidance Code (AGC) asked authors to answer a range of questions in their country reports. In responding to the pandemic, countries took variati…
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Parliaments Data
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to parliaments around the world. Faced with a trend of expansion of executive rule-making powers to deal with the pandemic, parliaments had to find ways of continuing to operate efficiently, while also dealing with the limits the pandemic impose…
Lex-Atlas: Covid-19Datasets