In the News - April 5, 2021
Media Highlights
It’s Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic
The New York Times—March 31, 2021
John Meyers: “We as professionals were singularly ill-equipped. Nobody had thought about proper forensic interviews in these situations.”
Congress Bailed Out Uber’s Workers. Now What?
Huffington Post—March 31, 2021
Veena Dubal: “There is nothing different about this work except that these companies deploy their workforce through technology.”
Discrimination Against Working Mothers Must End
Bloomberg Law—March 31, 2021
Center for WorkLifeLaw: The trends found in systemic bias towards women and people of color were not surprising—but the findings for working mothers were downright startling.
Rutgers University to Require Fall 2021 Students to Receive COVID Vaccine
The New American—March 30, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “For years, the FDA took the position that an EUA product cannot be mandated, this is not a new position, they’ve held it for years.”
When Trump’s team tried to pressure the CDC, they crossed a line
CNN Opinion—March 30, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “Political intervention in the provision of such information is a real risk. We can reduce that risk. And we should.”
Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege year of retaliation
NBC News—March 30, 2021
Veena Dubal: “Amazon controls workers’ bodies and movement in such minute ways, ostensibly to track productivity, that people cannot have any purpose in the workplace except for to produce.”
Community Stories
UC Law SF on the Move, Even as Measured by US News
With the publication today of US News & World Report’s (USNWR) annual rankings of law schools, it is a propitious time to take stock of the state of UC Law SF.
Alumna’s Cancer Journey Inspires Legislation
Proposed federal legislation to boost lifesaving cancer screening for women of color has been named in memory of Jeanette Acosta, a 2016 UC Law SF graduate who died of cervical cancer at age 32.
Scholarly Leadership
Binyamin Blum presented “Forensic Empire: How Colonialism Shaped Forensic Science” at the Global History of Forensic Science Workshop (organized by Binyamin Blum and Mitra Sharafi; co-sponsored by UC Law SF, University of Wisconsin Law School and the American Society for Legal History) (March 19 and March 26).
Scott Dodson presented “Article III and the Political-Question Doctrine” at the ACS Constitutional Law Forum (March 28, 2021).
Chimène Keitner presented “Prosecuting Foreign States” at the Georgetown International Law Colloquium (March 26, 2021).