Abstract
The international online conference "Legal Liability for Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care in the Covid-19 Pandemic" took place on April 15, 2021. The conference was jointly organised by the Centre for Medical Law at the Charles University Faculty of Law (Prague, the Czech Republic) and the University of Bergamo Faculty of Law in partnership with the European Law Institute's Italian Hub.
The conference aimed at inspiring and mediating international discussion on the questions which have proven crucial in the Covid-19 pandemic all around the world: a) what rules can be used to prioritise patients if there are not enough resources (such as health professionals and medical devices) in health care systems, and b) what are and should be the legal liability implications in this context. Nineteen lawyers presented fourteen national reports from Europe, both Americas, Africa, and Australia.
In the special guests' section, three intensive care experts (from Bergamo, Prague, and New York) and bioethicist Arthur Caplan shared their unique experience and ideas. Structured national reports and special guests' essays are to be collected in a post-conference publication.