http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200424-165029-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/an-emergency-by-any-other-name-measures-against-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-poland/ An Emergency By Any Other Name? Measures Against the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland Jaraczewski, Jakub eng 2020-04-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 Poland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The measures introduced to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Poland are among some of the most extensive and far-reaching, affecting many spheres of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Few of these measures amount to recommendations and suggestions of specific behaviour, most of them are hard, legally enforceable orders and prohibitions and flouting them incurs the risk of severe financial punishment. Yet the legal framework for these measures causes a significant degree of controversy. This report aims to present a birds eye’s view on the measures in Poland and to highlight some issues legal scholars and experts have taken with both the substantive side of the measures and the means they were introduced.