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).