Worlds Apart: Legal Responses to COVID-19 in New Zealand and Sweden

The Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by the foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of Congress.

In this entry in the series, foreign law specialists Kelly Buchanan and Elin Hofverberg will examine the different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by the governments of New Zealand and Sweden. The discussion will include comparisons of the overarching policies and approaches, relevant laws, and how the governments communicated with the public about the pandemic and the approaches taken.

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