The Impossibility of Legal Accountability for COVID-19 Torts
Torts scholars reflect on questions surrounding whether and how entities might be held liable for the harms associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Disability
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During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.
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Read more: A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response
Elements of the early U.S. pandemic response can help us remember that the limits of what is possible are perhaps wider than we think.
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Read more: We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health
No one will have learned from COVID, or any such crisis, until we undo this fundamental, toxic relationship of health to capital once and for all.
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Read more: The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative
I will be direct: schools that have officially departed from masking are stating an ongoing commitment to purposeful exclusion.
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Read more: Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving
The legal documents that every adult in the U.S. should have to help ensure their finances and health care are well-managed.
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Read more: The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem
Efforts to monitor health outcomes of people with disabilities are woefully inadequate. This stems, in part, from widespread institutionalization.
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Read more: Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
We know that COVID can affect our brains in ways both serious and subtle. How can our law and policy infrastructure understand and deal with its effects?
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Read more: The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden
Death represents the de facto solution to many of the conundrums posed by the pandemic.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering
In this symposium, our hope is to acknowledge — and mourn — this current era of mass suffering and death.
