COVID-19 and Securities Laws: A Contemporary Legal Issue

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is the present global problem. The new disease already attacks all continent and more than 100 million infected persons has already been recorded worldwide since its first appearance in 2019. The legal correspondence to the emerging disease is an interesting issue. Regarding COVID-19, there are many legal control measures for diseases containment. The objective of this article is to give an overview on COVID-19 outbreak and securities laws interrelationship. The retrospective literature analysis on the international publication regarding COVID-19 outbreak and legal containment is done. In this specific article, the authors discuss on specific securities laws for legal control of COVID-19. The finding from this study shows that there are advantages of legal measures for management of pandemic but there are still possible adverse effects of legal measure implementation. The utility of this work is a note for further of requirement for weighing between utility and possible side effect of the new laws. Nevertheless, since there are still limited reports on impact securities laws for COVID-19 containment, the additional monitoring of future literatures for fulfilling the knowledge gap is required.