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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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    • Housing and Food Law
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    • Education and Disinformation
    • Labor, Employment and Duties of Care
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    • Prisons and Incarcerated Populations
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Education and Disinformation

Resources

  • Boston Globe: Nearly a dozen Massachusetts districts faulted for asking parents to sign away special education rights (July 22, 2020)
  • Axios: Coronavirus is being used to suppress press freedoms globally (March 31, 2020)
  • U.N. Human Rights Council: Report of the Special Rapporteur on disease pandemics and the freedom of opinion and expression (April 23, 2020)
  • Brookings: How to Cope with an Infodemic (April 27, 2020)
  • The Verge: Google, Facebook, and Twitter to produce regular reports on coronavirus disinformation for the EU (June 11, 2020)
  • Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center: Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities (June 24, 2020)
  • Lawfare Podcast with author Brandi Collins-Dexter of the report “Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities” (July 9, 2020)
  • Lawfare: COVID-19 and Social Media Content Moderation (March 25, 2020)
  • Washington Post: Being safe and feeling safe aren’t the same thing — and the difference will matter to kids when schools open (July 8, 2020)
  • Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) at the UCLA Civil Rights Project: Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn (Oct. 11, 2020)
    • Pdf: Lost Opportunities – Executive Summary (Oct. 2020)

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Blog Posts

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

In the past several years, school attendance and absenteeism have been key focus areas of education policy. Consistent school attendance ...
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The Education Divide Caused by COVID-19

The United States has entered a ‘third’ wave of Covid-19 , and many students are entering yet another month of online ...
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Emergency Measures: Free Speech and Online Content Moderation During Coronavirus

A Conversation with HLS Lecturer evelyn douek In the chaos and confusion of the Coronavirus pandemic, few have stopped to ...
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