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Category: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ)

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FALQs: The Evolution of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

The following is a guest post by Zeynep Timocin Cantekin, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. The Council of the European Union stated that the increasing number of terrorist attacks since 2004 and …

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FALQs: Spain’s Legal Framework Applicable to the Coronavirus Explained

Posted by: Elin Hofverberg

The following is a guest post by Graciela Rodriguez-Ferrand, a senior foreign law specialist at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. When a plane landed in Madrid, Spain, on January 31, 2020, with passengers who had been evacuated from China …

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FALQs: Spreading Rumors and Police Reprimand Under Chinese Law

Posted by: Laney Zhang

This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. It was recently reported that Dr. Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor who was among the first to raise the alarm about the coronavirus disease (now named COVID-19) and died after contracting the virus from a patient, had been reprimanded by the police for “spreading rumors.” On his Weibo …

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FALQs: Measures to Control Infectious Diseases Under Chinese Law

Posted by: Laney Zhang

This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. In response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China has escalated measures to control the spread of the deadly virus, including locking down Wuhan and other cities in the province starting January 23, 2020. This followed an announcement …