Liability Insurance Could Hold 'Reckless' Police Officers Accountable
Listen back: On NPR’s All Things Considered, Professor Deborah Ramirez talks about her proposal to make personal liability insurance mandatory for individual police officers.
Listen back: On NPR’s All Things Considered, Professor Deborah Ramirez talks about her proposal to make personal liability insurance mandatory for individual police officers.
Chase Strangio ’10 and Carmelyn Malalis ’01, both 2020 Stonewall Awardees and nationally recognized LGBT legal activists, share their journeys and hopes for the future.
“The courts are trying to use video and teleconferencing to keep the wheels of justice turning,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. “What sort of remains to be seen is not which cases are emergencies, but how is technology up to this crisis."
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The show must go on! Portland lawyer Alison “Tex” Clark ’98 has been pre-recording her weekly community radio show with XRAY.FM from home since the emergence of COVID-19.
In developing responses to COVID-19, it’s important to consider lessons learned by past epidemics, as Dr. Anthony Fauci told us at our 2017 conference, “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases.”
“It’s mind-boggling that the United States could be at the bottom of the developed world in terms of getting testing kits out and issuing policies that mitigate the disease,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The New Yorker. "We need a much more robust strategy to manage community transmission.”
To get people to comply with self-quarantine requests before legal orders come into play, officials should streamline their messaging about the virus and the purpose of staying away from other people, says Professor Wendy Parmet.
Mass. AG Maura Healey '98 joined WBUR's All Things Considered to answer questions about labor and consumer rights in the age of the coronavirus.
Unless timely action is taken, South Africa could be faced with a new form of “pharmaceutical apartheid,” like that experienced in the early days of the AIDS response, when access to medicines here was blocked by decisions made by rich countries and pharmaceutical companies in the Global North, writes Professor Brook Baker in a co-authored op-ed for Spotlight.