Covid-19: a Case of Force Majeure? On Force Majeure and its Application in China upon the Burst of Covid-19 Epidemic

Abstract

The present thesis focuses on the application of the force majeure clause during the covid-19 outbreak in China and it develops in three chapters. The first chapter consists of an introduction that aims at providing a comparative analysis of force majeure in different law systems, namely the Italian one, the Anglo-American one and the Chinese one, as well as analyzing how the doctrine is considered internationally. The second chapter provides an introduction of the covid-19 outbreak and China’s national provisions to contain the emergency and then investigates the invocation of covid-19 epidemic as an event of force majeure in civil law cases. The third chapter consists of a comment on the certificate of force majeure issued by the CCPIT during the covid-19 emergency.