In the News - February 1, 2021
Media Highlights
New Executive Orders Help Abortion Seekers, Medicare Enrollees
Courthouse News—January 28, 2021
Thomas Greenly: “Millions of people losing their jobs, that’s a big change that has to be addressed. People who lose their job lose their insurance.”
It’s Time to Consider Vaccine Mandates in High-Risk Settings
Scientific American—January 28, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “COVID-19 vaccines offer a way out of the pandemic. The data on them are extremely promising.”
Purdue Talks Stall on Demand for More Cash From Sacklers
Bloomberg—January 27, 2021
Jared Ellias: “The federal bankruptcy court doesn’t have authority to grant that kind of immunity.”
Work From Home Has the Power to Advance Equality—or Set It Back
Bloomberg Businessweek—January 27, 2021
Joan Williams: “The WFH boom has been particularly unsettling to bosses with ‘traditional family arrangements’ with a full-time caregiver at home.”
Men And Women Receive Different Performance Reviews. Here’s How To Fix That
Entrepreneur—January 27, 2021
Joan Williams: “Women, especially women in male-dominated fields such as science and technology, report they have to provide more evidence of competence than their male peers.”
Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech
The Washington Post—January 26, 2021
Veena Dubal: “In response to tech company crackdowns and lobbying, gig workers have shifted their strategy to emphasize building worker-led movements and increasing their ranks.”
Biden Oil Leasing Halt Can Survive Legal Challenges, Lawyers Say
Bloomberg Law—January 25, 2021
John Leshy: “I think the industry’s chances of overturning this in court (even with Trump judges) are slim.”
Morgan Lewis’ Split With Trump May Not Be Easy
Law.com—January 25, 2021
Shanin Specter: “We lawyers are justifiably proud of our willingness to take on unpopular clients and unpopular causes. To drop a client like a hot potato flies in the face of that long and proud tradition.”
Anti-vaccine activists peddle theories that Covid-19 shots are deadly, undermining vaccination
CNN Health—January 25, 2021
Dort Reiss: “Social media users selectively edited a video of a Tennessee nurse, Tiffany Dover, to make it appear as if she dropped dead after being vaccinated, when in fact she simply fainted.”
Fearmongering over high-profile tragedy could undo decades of progress on criminal justice
San Francisco Examiner—January 22, 2021
Hadar Aviram: “Not every parole violation should result in automatic incarceration: separating those that do requires a complicated balancing of factors.”
Scholarly Leadership
Veena Dubal published “The Time Politics of Home-Based Digital Piecework” in the Center for Ethics Journal: Perspectives on Ethics, Symposium Issue “The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI” (2020).
Robin Feldman published “The Devil in the Tiers” in the peer reviewed Journal of Law and the Biosciences (2021).
Joel Paul spoke on the political economy of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act at the ClassCrits Workshop Series (January 22, 2021).