http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210324-031258-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/sri-lankas-legal-response-to-covid-19-past-trends-and-future-prospects/ Sri Lanka’s Legal Response to COVID-19: Past Trends and Future Prospects Ganeshathasan, Luwie eng 2021-03-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 COVID 19 Sri Lanka Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In the midst of this public health emergency, Sri Lanka’s legal system has contributed little if anything to Sri Lanka’s response to Covid-19 since March 2020. The legal system has been expected to and in a large part has in fact been “kept out of the way” of the political actors. In this post I will provide an overview of the GoSL’s legal and political response to Covid-19 and will highlight the implications of key actions on the rule of law and democratic governance. I will thereafter briefly capture the outlook for 2021.