Resources
- NY Times: Black Business Owners Had a Harder Time Getting Federal Aid, a Study Finds (July 15, 2020)
- Financial Times: Teamwork helps Zimbabwe pupils shut out of class by Covid-19 (July 15, 2020)
- NY Times: From the Magazine: ‘It Is Time for Reparations’ (June 24, 2020)
- SSRN: Emergency Powers in Response to COVID-19: Policy Diffusion, Democracy, and Preparedness (July 7, 2020)
- Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear, et al., Case No. 20-6399 (filed Dec. 21, 2020)
- McGill University: Federalism & the COVID-19 Pandemic – A compendium of (re)sources
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Blog Posts
Mask Madness: When Freedom of Speech and Opinion Becomes Assaultive
On January 20—the day he was sworn in to office—President Biden signed an executive order mandating masks for federal employees, ...
Coronavirus and the Takings Clause: An Uneasy Coupling
It’s been more than a year since the first Covid-19 cases were identified, and almost as long since much of ...
Vaccine Requirements, Passports, and the “New Normal”
As vaccination programs slowly ramp up across the United States, a burgeoning idea has slowly gained more traction: immunity “passports” ...
COVID-19 in a Federal System: Challenges and Opportunities
Federalism sits at the very core of American government. Yet, the coronavirus pandemic has pushed federalism under the microscope, exposing ...
Mask Mandates, Unmasked
On his first day in office, President Biden instituted a mask mandate for airports, on many forms of transportation, and ...
Government Authority to Respond to COVID-19, the Nondelegation Doctrine, and Legislatures vs. Governors
The most common response to the pandemic has been quick and decisive action from state governors to reduce the spread ...
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 ...
Stay-at-Home Orders and Religious Freedom: How Courts Balance the Free Exercise Clause and State Emergency Powers
In the wake of the initial impact of COVID-19, state governments rushed to respond to breakouts. The resulting executive orders ...
The Constitutionality of Technology-Assisted Contact Tracing
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an impossible set of choices for governments, forcing them to weigh the competing interests of ...
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 ...