Rhonda Rittenberg, co-chair of NALP's JD Advantage Work Group, has contributed to a comprehensive guide for law school career services offices to help students navigate an evolving employment landscape. The JD Advantage Career Guide contains profiles of 10 career areas, appendices and other data about JD Advantage jobs.
“Most people are trying to act in the best way they know how in the context of not knowing too much about a virus that’s killing a lot of people,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells The New York Times.
“California and Washington appeared very early to be leaders in taking action, while much of the rest of the country remained in the illusion that somehow this wasn't coming,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Daily Beast. “I don't think any state has done it perfectly—maybe they can’t in this environment.”
Priya Lane ’13, director of BizGrow, a program at Lawyers for Civil Rights that helps entrepreneurs with free legal assistance, is featured in the Boston Business Journal.
Good privacy engineering is one piece of the puzzle for contact tracing apps, writes Professor Woodrow Hartzog in an op-ed for the LA Times. "Perhaps even more difficult is weighing the long-term consequences of how these tools will be used after the pandemic ends."
“The intervention by the federal government in private tort law of states would be extremely problematic,” Professor Emily Spieler tells The Washington Post. “Tort law is a matter of states.”
Author Rishi Reddi '92 has published her first novel, `Passage West,’ which follows a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history.
Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Wichita Eagle the underlying consensus that appeared to be holding in the early stages of the pandemic is breaking down: "Public health orders are becoming yet another issue viewed through a political prism."
The School of Law hosted a virtual commencement celebration on Thursday, May 21. Watch the video highlights!
“The danger is, it’s a race to the bottom as more and more states reopen,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Boston Globe. "It will be harder and harder for governors to maintain stricter measures in their state. People are tired of the lockdowns and there is a pressure in opening up, but also a lot of risk.”