In the News - January 25, 2020

Media Highlights

Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push

Bloomberg Law—January 21, 2021

John Leshy: “As I read it, Interior needs to pause all activities in connection with the leases for the duration of the moratorium.”

The Problem With Trump’s Odious Pardon of Steve Bannon

The New York Times—January 20, 2021

Aaron Rappaport: The original public meaning of the pardon power was that hazy or overbroad pardons are not constitutional.

‘Coming for You and Your Job’: With Prop. 22, Are Grocery Staff Layoffs Just the Beginning?

KQED—January 20, 2021

Veena Dubal: “What the Proposition 22 worker category that was created does is significantly lower labor costs for corporations.”

You Must Be Lost: Gender Discrimination in STEM

Leo Weekly—January 20, 2021

Joan Williams: “Women in STEM have to walk the tightrope of needing to behave in masculine ways to be seen as competent but still being expected to act feminine.”

Vaccine Chaos: Californians Scramble For Shots Amid Mixed Messaging

KPBS—January 20, 2021

Dorit Reiss: “Any rollout like this is bound to run into snags, but this level of problems is concerning.”

Biden Wants to Unite the Country. How Can He Do It?

Politico—January 20, 2021

Joan Williams: ”Biden needs an industrial policy that abandons neo-liberal assumptions that good jobs aren’t possible for non-college-grads.”

Will Biden stop the public health order that has turned away migrants nearly 400,000 times?

Dallas News—January 19, 2021

Karen Musalo: “The Biden administration can and should reverse all these policies.”

Gig Workers Are Employees. Start Treating Them That Way.

The New York Times—January 18, 2021

Veena Dubal: “With the building of progressive momentum to address racial and economic inequality, the Biden administration should expand protections for all workers, not allow them to erode for millions more.”

Revising the pardon power — let the Speaker and Congress have voices

The Hill—January 18, 2021

David Levine: “Given the post-Watergate trend, this amendment would add guardrails to the power without adding undue complexity.”

Proposed Changes to the MDL System – How Did it Work for You?

MeshNewsDesk—January 18, 201

Shanin Specter: “Fees were shorted by the MDL executive committee in West Virginia, even though they were supposed to be working together in sharing fees collected from settlements and jury verdicts.”

College and Community Stories

Prof. Reiss Explains the COVID-19 Vaccine in New Videos

Can hospitals sell the COVID-19 vaccine for a profit? Can you sue if you get sick from the COVID vaccine? Can hospital workers be fired for refusing to vaccinate? As a leading vaccine law scholar, Prof. Dorit Reiss answers these questions and more in a series of videos.

Scholarly Leadership

Emily Murphy published “Evidence of memory from brain data” with Jesse Rissman in the peer-reviewed Journal of Law and the Biosciences (December 2020).

Dave Owen presented “The Law of Groundwater Recharge” at the Water Law Works-in-Progress Symposium.

Chimène Keitner was a featured guest on The Lawfare Podcast, “The Past, Present and Future of Sovereign Immunity.”