Will COVID-19 be a Force Majeure Event in Commercial Contracts? A Civil and Common Law Analysis

On Wednesday, January 13, Contemporary Challenges in American & Global Law began its winter webinar series. Attendees were welcomed by school officials from both The Columbus School of Law and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The first program of the winter series, “Will COVID-19 be a Force Majeure Event in Commercial Contracts? A Civil and Common Law Analysis,” was moderated by Professor Emerita Leah Wortham, Director of the American Law Program and the LL.M. Program at Catholic Law. The discussion was led by Vincenzo Senatore (LL.M. ’10), a partner in the London office of Giambrone & Partners, LLP, with comments made by Catholic Law Board of Visitors member Andrew Palmieri ’87, a partner at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr in Washington, D.C