SLS COVID-19 Research, Analysis and Expert Opinion
Stanford Law School faculty are actively engaged in trying to solve the real and urgent legal and policy issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and influencing the national conversation, from spearheading research projects, hosting events to facilitate discussions and learnings, providing expertise to journalists, publishing articles and opinion pieces, and more. Covering a wide range of subject matter including elections, immigration, privacy, ethics, intellectual property, and health policy, here is a selection of their latest work related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SLS News & Announcements
Faculty Op-eds
The Missing Piece — SARS-CoV-2 Testing and School Reopening
(This op-ed was first published in The New England Journal of Medicine on October 21, 2020.) On August 17, 2020, the Los Angeles Unified School District launched a program to test more than 700,000 students and staff for SARS-CoV-2. The district is paying a private contractor to provide next-day, early-morning results for…
Read MoreAttacks on Public Health Officials During COVID-19
Partitioning the Curve — Interstate Travel Restrictions During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Time for a Nationwide Eviction Moratorium is Now
Courts Will Need to Adapt to the Coronavirus Crush
Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines Against SARS-CoV-2
It’s Not Too Late to Save the 2020 Election
Legal Aggregate
The High-Stakes Count: Stanford’s Pam Karlan and Nate Persily on Taking the Census During a Pandemic
Xổ số đài thoải mái Every ten years, the great counting begins: the census. Enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and regulated by law, the census is carried out by the U.S. Census Bureau, which is charged with gathering critical data about the American population for the federal government—data critical to the fair distribution of federal…
Read MorePost-COVID Courts
Stanford Law's Michelle Mello on California's COVID-19 Spike and Measures to Bend the Curve
Privacy and New Google-Apple COVID-19 Tracing Technology
The EARN IT Act is a disaster amid the COVID-19 crisis
Coronavirus Border Expulsions: CDC’s Assault on Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors
Stanford’s David Sklansky on Two IG Firings, One with Oversight of Covid-19 Relief Bill
Media Coverage
COVID-19 Discussions
Stanford Law faculty, students and colleagues are actively engaged in addressing the important legal and policy challenges that have emerged as cities, states and countries respond to the novel coronavirus. This audio series includes discussions at the law school that are focused on the wide array of legal and policy issues that are related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stanford Legal
SLS Blogs
BioSci Fi: SARS-CoV-2 as Puppet Master
The last few weeks as I have been dutifully reading or listening to good, educational, and “improving” books—mainly histories or biographies—I have felt a growing urge to re-read some old science fiction. But what? As the days went on, I began to feel myself pulled towards to 1950s Robert A.…
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