This volume discusses the constitutional models of emergency and human rights protection in each of the Visegrad (V4) countries and illustrates how these models and the general framework of rights protection materialised in the limitations of the selected human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.

States of emergency and fundamental rights in books and in actions: the Visegrad countries and the COVID-19 pandemic; Part I: Models of states of emergency in Visegrad countries; 2. States of emergency in Hungary; 3. States of emergency in Poland: A model under construction?; 4. Models of states of emergency in Slovakia and their political context: "We'll manage...somehow?"; Part II: Models of human rights protection in Visegrad countries; 5. he normative standards of human rights protection in normalcy and in emergency in Hungary; 7. Human rights in states of emergency: Constitutional principles and their application in the Republic of Poland; 8. A widening gap? Fundamental rights and states of emergency in Slovakia; Part III: Restrictions on human rights in times of COVID-19 pandemic; 9. Emergency as a pretext for restricting political rights - the Hungarian autocratic regime at work; 10. Restrictions on the freedom of assembly: The case of Poland; 11. Disproportionate restrictions on the freedom of movement: The Slovak Republic during the COVID-19 pandemic; 113. Restrictions on the right to a fair trial in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic