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COVID-19 and The Law

COVID-19 and The Law

Law and Policy to Address Basic Needs and Marginalized Populations

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Education and Disinformation

WARSAW, POLAND - MARCH 23: Conference participants during the Warsaw Medical Congress For Young Scientists at the Medical University of Warsaw. March 23, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland.

The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 on America’s Young Adults: “College seems like a really far away concept right now.”[1]

April 28, 2021 by Dessie Otachliska, J.D. 2021

Mental Health Repercussions of Virtual Interactions and Quarantine The COVID-19 pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of everyday life, canceling large events, shuttering non-essential businesses, and effectively forcing the majority of interpersonal interactions into the virtual space. While the pandemic has occasioned widespread job loss, economic instability, and food and housing insecurity for vulnerable members […]

Class of 2021 graduation tassel and cap celebration with a modern computer for virtual learning during covid 19 pandemic.

University Lawsuits

April 26, 2021 by Bailey Kennedy, J.D. 2022

It’s now been more than a year since most students across the United States started a wild experiment with remote learning. Students abruptly found themselves saying goodbye to their friends and professors, heading home to explore the limits of technology, and discovering just how many hours they could spend in front of their computers every […]

Little hand and keyboard notebook.

Educators, ELLs, and Covid-19

April 25, 2021 by Bailey Kennedy, J.D. 2022

Longstanding obligations meet new challenges In 1974, the Supreme Court held in Lau v. Nichols that the San Francisco school district had failed to provide Chinese speaking students in the district with “a meaningful opportunity to participate in the educational program.” This case still remains a touchstone in the body of law requiring English language […]

interior of a school with desks equipped with protective plexiglass screens.

The Rights of Public School Teachers in a Pandemic

March 25, 2021 by Kimberly Foreiter, J.D. 2022

With the Biden administration pushing schools to reopen in-person, it is necessary to reflect on the hardships our educators have met and continue to encounter as the COVID-19 crisis lives on.[1] The gaps in teacher employment protections have and continue to cause excruciating consequences. This blog post serves as documentation of our teachers’ plights. The […]

Empty classroom.

Getting our Child Co-Workers Back to School Safely—and Avoiding the “Education Contracts of Adhesion” Trap

March 12, 2021 by Leah A. Plunkett & Michael S. Lewis

As more private and public primary and secondary (K-12) schools move to reopen in-person, we need to ensure reopening plans protect public health—and also protect the legal rights of parents and students, as well as schools’ core ethical imperative of nurturing and guiding young people. The pressures to reopen are mounting, and so are the […]

journalist taking notes during press conference.

Journalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

March 5, 2021 by Marcus Mitchell, J.D. 2022

“When I announced it, you all said, ‘It’s not possible.’ Come on, give me a break, man. It’s a good start. 100 million,” President Biden responded to a question from Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller. Miller asked at a January 21, 2021 COVID-19 focused press briefing if Biden’s vaccine goal of 100 million shots in […]

Briefing of president of US United States in White House.

Government Information Dissemination in the Post-Trump Era

March 5, 2021 by Marcus Mitchell, J.D. 2022

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki led the Biden administration’s first press briefing. Though no stranger to press briefings (Psaki served as traveling press secretary for President Obama during both of his presidential campaigns, and as State Department spokesperson from 2013 – 2015), a clear theme emerged that likely struck […]

Empty classroom.

Federal, State, and Local Responses to Student Absenteeism during COVID-19

January 5, 2021 by Eileen Macron, J.D. 2022

In the past several years, school attendance and absenteeism have been key focus areas of education policy. Consistent school attendance is necessary for students’ long-term academic success, and the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 heightened the role that attendance plays in school performance metrics. The Act requires states to submit multi-factor education plans for […]

child learning remotely.

The Education Divide Caused by COVID-19

December 26, 2020 by Annie Kapnick

The United States has entered a ‘third’ wave of Covid-19 , and many students are entering yet another month of online learning. The American education system has long been plagued with racial and socio-economic inequalities, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide shift to online learning has transformed what was an already widening inequality gap into […]

Young woman using smart phone,Social media concept.

Emergency Measures: Free Speech and Online Content Moderation During Coronavirus

September 30, 2020 by Jeremy Dang

A Conversation with HLS Lecturer evelyn douek In the chaos and confusion of the Coronavirus pandemic, few have stopped to notice or second-guess the unprecedented role that online platforms have assumed in the past few months. Among the few who have, fewer still have looked beyond the pandemic and questioned what is truly at stake. […]

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