http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200415-212705-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-constitutionalized-state-of-emergency/ The Constitutionalized State of Emergency - The Case of Portugal Lomba, Pedro eng 2020-04-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus State of Emergency Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The late Giovanni Sartori once said that we lacked a general theory of dictatorship. It is very likely that we are also short of a theory of emergency. As the current pandemic has come to show us, not only we still have difficulties to include emergency into our conception of constitutional law; we seem to differ on what emergency means and necessitates and on what should be its place in the functioning of the democratic State.