COVID-19 and The Law

Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations

Agenda

Wednesdays 12 - 1pm

Section 1: Basic Needs and Government Duties

GOVERNMENTAL POWERS

MODERATOR – Martha Minow – 300th Anniversary University Professor
    • Urs Gasser – Professor of Practice; Executive Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
    • Jonathan Zittrain – George Bemis Professor of International Law; Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources; Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society; Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
    • Noah Feldman – Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law; Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law
    • Niko Bowie – Assistant Professor of Law
    • Vicki Jackson – Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law
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HEALTH LAW AND COVID-19

MODERATOR – Emily Broad Leib – Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic 

  • Robert Greenwald – Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation; Health Law and Policy Clinic
  • Glenn Cohen – James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law; Deputy Dean and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
  • Peter Barton Hutt – Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School 

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HOUSING AND FOOD LAW

MODERATOR – David Harris – Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
  • Joe Singer – Bussey Professor of Law
  • Eloise Lawrence – Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Deputy Faculty Director, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
  • Julie McCormack – Director, Safety Net Project at Legal Services Center
  • Emily Broad Leib – Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic
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Section 2: Governance and Democracy

ELECTIONS

MODERATOR – Charles Fried – Beneficial Professor of Law
  • Nicholas Stephanopoulus – Professor of Law
  • Ruth Greenwood – Lecturer on Law; Co-Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center
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EDUCATION & DISINFORMATION

MODERATOR – Martha Minow – 300th Anniversary University Professor
  • Michael Gregory – Clinical Professor of Law
  • Susan Crawford – John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law
  • Evelyn Douek – S.J.D. Candidate (Digital Constitutionalism and Techlash)
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Section 3: The Economy, Finance and the Law

LABOR, EMPLOYMENT, AND DUTIES OF CARE

MODERATOR – John Goldberg – Deputy Dean; Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence
  • Benjamin Sachs – Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry
  • Sharon Block – Lecturer on Law; Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program
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MONEY, FINANCE, AND CONSUMERS

MODERATOR – Todd Rakoff – Byrne Professor of Administrative Law
  • Christine Desan – Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law; 
  • Toby Merrill – Lecturer on Law; Director, Project on Predatory Student Lending
  • Howell Jackson – James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law
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Section 4: Legal Rights and Human Needs of People in Detention

PRISONS AND INCARCERATED POPULATIONS

MODERATOR – Alan Jenkins – Professor of Practice
  • Adriaan Lanni – Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law
  • Nancy Gertner – Senior Lecturer on Law
  • Intisar Rabb – Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law; Director, Program in Islamic Law; Professor of History, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Ron Sullivan – Jesse Climenko Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Justice Institute
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IMMIGRATION AND DETENTION CENTERS/COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

MODERATOR – Bill Alford – Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
  • Sabi Ardalan – Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
  • Gerald Neuman – J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law
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Section 5: Global Issues, Access to Justice and Innovation

ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND LEGAL INNOVATION

MODERATOR – Jon Hanson – Alan A. Stone Professor of Law; Director, Project on Law and Mind Sciences
  • Dan Nagin – Clinical Professor of Law; Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education; Faculty Director, WilmerHale Legal Services Center & Veterans Legal Clinic
  • Jim Greiner – The Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law; Faculty Director, Access to Justice Lab
  • David Wilkins – Lester Kissel Professor of Law; Director, Center on the Legal Profession; Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession
  • Lucie White – Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law
  • Esme Caramello – Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS; REFLECTIONS

MODERATOR – Martha Minow & Emily Broad Leib – 300th Anniversary University Professor | Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic 
  • Kristen Stilt – Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program; Faculty Director, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
  • Dehlia Umunna – Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Deputy Director, Criminal Justice Institute
  • Jody Freeman – Archibald Cox Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Environmental and Energy Law Program
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