The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields
The COVID liability landscape has presented less of a narrative about the development of substantive torts doctrine and more a study in politics.

The COVID liability landscape has presented less of a narrative about the development of substantive torts doctrine and more a study in politics.

There is a pressing need for a set of principles to guide not just the imposing of COVID-type restrictions, but also relaxing or lifting them.

By Yusuf Lenfest Professor Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, rightly identifies depression as a particularly crippling disease insofar as it affects one’s very response mechanisms and modes of coping, namely, experiences of gratitude, joy, pleasure—at bottom, some of the key emotions of resistance and healing. In discussing depression, he…