http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200323-122747-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/fighting-covid-19-legal-powers-and-risks-italy/ Fighting COVID 19 – Legal Powers and Risks: Italy Tega, Diletta Massa, Michele eng 2020-03-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 Italy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Particularly in the current month of March 2020, Italian authorities have enacted, and gradually intensified and extended, a lockdown on mobility, assembly and economic activities, currently encompassing the entire national territory. Such measures, unprecedented in democratic countries, have met praise by the World Health Organization. From a legal point of view, a vast array of legal instruments has been employed, and some have been crafted for this very occasion (for a complete list, see the references below). We focus here on national initiatives, but also Regions and Municipalities have employed their emergency powers, occasionally creating problems in coordination.