In the News - March 8, 2020
Media Highlights
Covid-19 disparities fuel tribes’ vaccine rollout success
Native Sun News Today—February 25, 2021
Jo Carillo: “The Indian Health Service, in my view, is part of the story of Covid’s impact on Native American and indigenous communities.”
Is a Mass Reckoning Coming for the Plaintiffs Bar?
Law.com—February 28, 2021
Shanin Specter: “There’s too much potential for abuse and therefore it’s important that a neutral party, in this case, a judge, assess the fairness of the settlement.”
Facebook and Google are prolonging the pandemic
San Francisco Chronicle—March 1, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “Social media companies must limit anti-vaccine groups’ power to harm people through their services.”
4 healthcare antitrust issues to watch
HealthcareDive—March 1, 2021
Tim Greaney: “[The Sutter settlement] might invigorate a few more suits, private suits, because the Sutter case was initially brought and settled by the grocer’s union.”
US Officials Are Deporting Haitian Immigrants Despite Knowing They May Face Danger
BuzzFeed News—March 2, 2021
Nicole Phillips: “This is a really unsafe and difficult time for Haiti. The government is not able to receive and protect these people.”
Lake-County Record Bee—March 3, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “The emergency use authorization — a rarity in U.S. history — is the main issue driving legal uncertainty around whether campuses can require the vaccine.”
‘This has been a huge mental toll’: Working moms still struggle a year into pandemic
ABC News—March 4, 2021
Joan C. Williams: “Many of [these women] are basically trying to do three peoples’ jobs. They’re doing their own job. They’re doing the childcare worker’s job. And they’re being a tech aid to their children’s teacher.”
Distinguishing Social Enterprise Lawyering
LexBlog—March 5, 2021
Alina Ball: “A social enterprise lawyering theory is needed given criticism of social entrepreneurship for its out-sized emphasis on the individual entrepreneur or business.”
Scholarly Leadership
Veena Dubal gave the keynote address, “The New Racial Wage Code,” at Leuven University (Belgium), Workshop on Technology and Philosophy.
Heather Field delivered the 2021 E.L. Wiegand Lecture at the University of San Francisco Law School on “How Good Tax Lawyers Go Wrong: Aggressive Tax Planning, Bounded Ethicality, and the Meaning of Ethical Tax Lawyering.”
Dorit Reiss was appointed to the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA, which will design public policy to support high acceptance of safe and effective vaccines.