COVID-19 and The Law

Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations

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Colloquium Series Co-Hosted by Martha Minow and Emily Broad Leib

Wednesdays 12-1pm from September 9 to November 18

“COVID-19 is the most important development in my professional lifetime. The 1918 pandemic, the 1929 economic decline, the 1968 social implosion and the Andrew Johnson presidency all at once is how it’s been described. Labor markets, financial markets and international relations will never be the same.”

Lawrence Summers is Charles W. Eliot University Professor.

The Idea of a Human Rights-Based Economic Recovery after COVID-19

This paper, written by Professor Katharine G. Young, Boston College Law School, was originally published on SSRN on August 26, ...
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Returns to Public Investment in Drug Discovery: Some Fundamental Questions

Fred Ledley, Ekaterina Cleary, and Matthew Jackson[1] “I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the ...
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Voter Suppression: Disinformation and Harmful Narratives around Voting

This memo was originally written by the Disinfo Defense League (DDL) and published by their writers on August 27, 2020 ...
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Prioritizing Life: the Grim Irony of Capital Punishment in the Time of Coronavirus

As it has transformed almost every aspect of social and economic life in America, the Coronavirus pandemic has forced local ...
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