11May,2020
COVID 19 and legal effects
Organized by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, a series of panel discussions on "COVID 19 Challenges in Georgia" was held online.
On May 9, 2020, the Faculty of Law of Sabauni organized a discussion on "COVID 19 and Legal Effects - Conversations on Law". The discussion was moderated by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Giorgi Goradze. Affiliated lecturers of the Faculty of Law Tengiz Tevzadze, Giorgi Meskhi, Gvantsa Gugeshashvili and Ucha Bakhtadze delivered speeches at the meeting.
Mr. Tengiz Tevzadze spoke about the ongoing constitutional changes under the state of emergency. He discussed the dangers that the current situation could pose to the adoption of the draft constitutional law. He also focused on the unhealthy election process.
Giorgi Meskhi, Associate Professor of Sabauni from Germany, participated in the online discussion and introduced the German experience related to the pandemic. According to him, the German government is trying to take measures in two directions through legislation: 1. Protection of human health and life; 2. Steps taken to maintain the economy. The German experience shows that the government of this country is able to effectively take care of human social protection and at the same time try to ensure less painful consequences of the economic crisis.
Gvantsa Gugeshashvili, head of the Michel Muskheli Center for European Studies in Sabauni and an associate professor from France, joined the discussion and spoke about the restrictions and bans caused by the coronavirus in France. She focused on sanctions related to violations during the state of emergency. She also spoke about the system of partial subsidies in the process of unemployment by the French state and in general how basic human rights are protected in a pandemic.
The topic of the speech of Ucha Bakhtadze, Magister of the University of Oxford, Head of the Center for Crime and Criminal Justice at the, was "The Impact of COVID-19 on the increase in crime." He spoke about the growing trend of individual crimes, with a particular focus on the rise of crime against property in emergencies, the move of crime into cyberspace and the various factors caused by the new coronavirus that increase crime.
The second part of the panel discussion was dedicated to the discussion and questions and answers, which were attended by professors and students from different universities of Georgia.