Abstract:
The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented global health crisis. The effects of this
pandemic and the precautionary measures to confront it extended to the implementation of
contracts in general and administrative contracts in particular. The law constitutes the frst
and most capable weapon to encounter these effects by applying the force majeure theory
when the implementation of an administrative contract becomes impossible; or by applying
the emergency theory when the implementation of the administrative contract becomes
burdensome for the contracting party. Therefore, we conducted this study to investigate and
clarify the importance of accurate and correct legal characterization of this pandemic and its
effects, whether as a force majeure or an emergency, especially since there is a difference in
the effects of the application of each of the two theories.
