Resources
- RAND: Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence: Identifying Research and Practice Needs to Preserve Fairness While Leveraging New Technology (2020)
- U.N. Development Program: Ensuring Access to Justice in the Context of COVID-19 (May 20, 2020)
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Project on Making Justice Accessible: Designing Legal Services for the 21st Century
- HLS Center on the Legal Profession Nov. 20th Event: Virtual Conference – Online Courts: Perspectives from the Bench and the Bar
- The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center For Human Rights and Justice: Chelsea, Massachusetts – The Care Industry During COVID-19
Webinar
Live: Wednesday, November 11 2020, 12-1pm
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Blog Posts
Criminal Jury Trials by Zoom: An Uneasy Bargain with the Constitution
On August 11, 2020, Travis County, Texas made history by holding the nation’s first virtual criminal jury trial. While the ...
Coronavirus and the Right to a Speedy Trial
What does it mean for an individual to have a meaningful right to a speedy trial when the whole world ...
All Rise, All Mute: Online court proceedings, coronavirus, and access to justice
“[O]ur system of courts is archaic and our procedure behind the times.” - Roscoe Pound (Former Dean of Harvard Law ...
Unprecedented Expulsion of Immigrants at the Southern Border: The Title 42 Process
In March, President Trump relied on a little-used public health rule to drastically restrict immigration at the United States’ land ...
COVID-19 and Undocumented Workers: A Catastrophic Confluence
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate workers and families across the United States, undocumented immigrants remain particularly vulnerable. Most ...
Telework for Caregivers: A Gap in Employment and Disability Law
The pandemic has exposed a gap in our employment and disability laws—a lack of care for caregivers. The workforce is ...
Police Should Not Be Enforcing Emergency Public Health Orders
On a weekend when police officers were handing masks to white residents in parks around New York City, NYPD Officer ...
Coronavirus and the Class Action
As coronavirus has upended life across the globe, the disruption has been followed by a wave of class action cases ...
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 ...