COVID-19

COVID-19 and the Law: COVID-19’s Legacy & Evolving Legal Doctrines
February 2, 2021
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COVID-19 and the Law: What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Health Justice and the Path Forward
February 16, 2021
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COVID-19 and the Law: The Use of Biotech in the COVID-19 Pandemic
February 23, 2021
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COVID-19 and the Law: The Disparate Burdens of COVID-19
March 3, 2021
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COVID-19 and the Law: The Health Care System in the Age of COVID-19
March 16, 2021
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On August 26, 2020, four experts presented on issues of COVID-19 and incarcerated populations, including how the pandemic has affected public health in prisons, the problem of mass incarceration, and the broader decarceral movement.

Their presentations are available below.

Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.) ’71, Retired United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts and Senior Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, presented on the bench’s response to compassionate release during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Jaimie Meyer, Associate Professor of Medicine (AIDS) at Yale School of Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing at Yale School of Nursing, and Affiliated Faculty at the Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School, presented on why depopulation of prisons is important from a clinical and public health perspective and advocated for finding ways to identify and seek the release of incarcerated people most vulnerable to COVID-19.

Professor Marisol Orihuela ’08, Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Former Deputy Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, CA, presented on how the advocacy and litigation regarding COVID-19 and incarcerated populations has played across different carceral populations, including federal, state, and local prisons, immigration detention centers, and psychiatric hospitals.

Professor Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School, presented on legal and economic forces driving mass incarceration and the claims that confinement of medically vulnerable individuals is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments.

On September 2, 2020, four experts presented on issues of COVID-19 and the 2020 Election, including issues of voting by mail, lost votes, postponing elections, and voting rights protections.

• Richard L. Hasen: Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine
• Michael T. Morley '03: Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law
• Nathaniel Persily: James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
• Charles Stewart III: Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Their presentations are available below. Following the workshop, two students, Charlotte Blatt '22 and Solomon Center Student Fellow, Kate Hamilton '22, published To Get Out the Youth Vote, Start with a Stamp in the Election Law Blog.

Professor Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, presented on the challenges to voting rights protections discussed in his 2020 article Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How To Treat and Cure Them, published in the Election Law Journal.

Professor Michael T. Morley ’03, Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Law, presented on protecting the right to vote and the integrity of the election in responding to election emergencies.

Professor Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, presented on the challenges of mail voting and in-person voting in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented on the risks of lost votes by mail in the 2020 election.

On September 9, 2020, four experts presented on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected various issues of constitutional law, including religious liberty, civil liberties, gun rights, reproductive rights, and executive powers.

Professor Joseph Blocher ’06, Lanty L. Smith ’67 Professor of Law at Duke Law School, presented on risks related to increased gun sales during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Second Amendment implications of gun shop closures during the pandemic.

Professor Melissa Murray ’02, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network at New York University School of Law, presented on the constitutional implications for abortion provision in the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly related to state executive orders limiting access to elective procedures.

Professor Stephen Vladeck ’04, A. Dalton Cross Professor In Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, presented on federal and state executive power in the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular the several cases on COVID and state constitutional powers and courts’ review and deference in applying Jacobson v. Massachusetts.

On September 16, 2020, four experts presented on issues related to ethics, medical rationing, and disability law implicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, including disability rights, prioritization of care, rationing of care, and the ethics of immunity certificates. Their presentations are available below.

 Following the workshop, two students, Yolanda Bustillo ’22 and Solomon Center Student Fellow Rachel Perler ’22 published Balancing Health Care Rationing and Disability Rights in a Pandemic in the Harvard Law School Bill of Health.

Dr. Joseph Fins, the E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics, Professor of Medicine (with Tenure), Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law and Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, discussed his experience consulting with physicians on ethical issues of care during the COVID-19 pandemic and the ethical considerations in administering and rationing care.

Professor Henry T. (Hank) Greely ’77, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School;, Professor by courtesy of Genetics at Stanford School of Medicine; Director of the Stanford Program and Neuroscience and Society, and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University, presented on immunity certificates as discussed in his article COVID-19 immunity certificates: science, ethics, policy, and law, published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences in 2020.

Professor Peter Littlejohns, Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant to the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, presented on rationing and prioritization in health care, using the UK’s National Health Service as a case study, and argued that to prioritize fairly systems must articulate values and develop a fair process to ensure the best for individual patients and public health.

On September 23, 2020, experts presented on issues related to FDA regulation of vaccines, tests, and therapeutics developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their presentations are available below.

Professor Nathan Grubaugh, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine, presented on his lab’s development of a test for COVID-19, the role of the FDA in the testing, screening, and diagnostics, and the issues in increasing testing capacity in the pandemic.

Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine and former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, presented on the FDA’s responsibilities related to the regulation of food, drugs, and medical devices and the FDA’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular regarding vaccine development and approval.

Professor Aaron S. Kesselheim, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor in Law at Yale Law School, presented on the need to balance evidence and speed in developing therapeutics and vaccines for COVID-19 and the FDA’s role in overseeing development, approving, and promoting access to these therapeutics and vaccines.

On September 30, 2020, four experts presented on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the U.S. health care system, including state and federal responses to promote public health, how the pandemic has changed the use of telemedicine, and how courts have interpreted and applied traditional public health law doctrines, including Jacobson v. Massachusetts, in recent COVID-related cases. Their presentations are available below.

Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, discussed the state level public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the political and legal challenges to enforcing these responses.

Professor Lawrence Gostin, University Professor at Georgetown University, Founding Linda D. & Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights, presented on the traditional public health law doctrines, including Jacobson v. Massachusetts, and how Jacobson and related cases have affected the public health interventions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Dr. Karen S. Rheuban, Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education, and Director of the Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth at the University of Virginia and former President of the American Telemedicine Association, presented on how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the use of and access to telemedicine, including the federal policy changes that supported the increased access and the challenges to continued widespread use of telemedicine in the United States.

Andy Slavitt, General Partner at Town Hall Ventures, Distinguished Health Policy Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, addressed the federal government’s health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges posed by the fragmented U.S. healthcare system and the populations’ perceptions of the pandemic.

On October 14, 2020, experts presented on the role of federalism and localism in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including challenges to city- and state-level responses and the role of federal aid and state bankruptcy to address the economic harms to governments. 

Professor Richard Florida, University Professor at University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, Distinguished Fellow at NYU and FIU, and Co-Founder and Senior Editor at The Atlantic City Lab, presented on how the COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to change cities and factors that will enable cities to become more prosperous, inclusive, just, and resilient.

Professor David N. Schleicher, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, posed questions to fellow speakers about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on changing cities, on economic growth, local politics, and the critiques of state bankruptcy.

Professor David Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, presented on the economic harms suffered by state and local governments related to the COVID-19 pandemic and compared options to support states, including federal aid packages and state bankruptcy.

Professor Miriam Seifter, Associate Professor of Law and Rowe Faculty Fellow in Regulatory Law at University of Wisconsin Law School, responded to the presentations regarding state and local responses to COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of states’ capacity to govern and highlighting two obstacles to state capacity: partisan polarization and divergent visions of the role of government.

On October 21, 2020, five experts presented on the use of executive and emergency powers during the pandemic and balancing public health with civil liberties. 

Their presentations are available below.

Professor Jack Goldsmith ’89, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard University, presented on the extraordinary executive underreach during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenge of emergency authorities and judicial review.

Professor Roderick M. (Rick) Hills Jr. ’91, William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and Professor John A. Ferejohn, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, presented a work in progress on executive overreach and underreach during crises and the incentives for centralization and decentralization of power during the pandemic.

Professor Bernadette Meyler, Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Stanford Law School and Professor by courtesy of English at Stanford University, presented on constitutional flexibility in a public health emergency and striking a balance between constitutional requirements and general welfare.

Professor John Fabian Witt ’99, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, presented on the history of legal institutions’ approach to public health crises.

On October 28, 2020, three judges joined us to discuss the judiciary’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of maintaining access to justice and using new technologies. 

Their presentations are available below.

Judge Robert A. Katzmann ’80, who was until September 2020 Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, discussed how the Second Circuit adapted in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, presented on how the Michigan state court system responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges and benefits associated with the courts’ uses of technologies.

Chief Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, presented on the courts’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges related to access to justice and conducting virtual trials.

On November 4, 2020, experts presented on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the economy. 

• Daron Acemoglu: Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Yair Listokin '05: Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Their presentations are available below.

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Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented on how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing problems in the United States economy and their relationship to technological development.

Yair Listokin ’05, Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law at Yale Law School, presented a history of macroeconomics and explained how these lessons inform our economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in terms of monetary and fiscal policy.

On November 4, 2020, experts presented on the role of the social safety net in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Andrew Hammond ’14, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, presented his article, How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has and Should Reshape the American Safety Net, co-authored with Ariel Jurow Kleiman ’14 and Gabriel Scheffler ’14 and published in the Minnesota Law Review Headnotes.

Karen Tani, Seaman Family University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, presented on the welfare system in the United States, explaining the non-universality and limitations of the welfare state and contextualizing the COVID-19 response within the history of the social safety net programs.

On November 11, 2020, experts presented on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the United States.

• Daniel Markovits ’00: Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Kimberly J. Robinson: Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Professor of Education, Curry School of Education; and Professor of Law, Education and Public Policy, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

Their presentations are available below. After the workshop, two students, Solomon Center Student Fellows Emily Caputo YLS ’22 and Blake N. Shultz YLS ’21, SOM ’22 published Can Schools Require the COVID-19 Vaccine? Education, Equity, and the Courts in the Harvard Law School Bill of Health.

Daniel Markovits ’00, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School, discussed inequalities in the educational system in the United States, particularly in relation to income, and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these inequalities.

Kimberly J. Robinson, Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law, Professor of Education at the Curry School of Education, and Professor of Law, Education and Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at University of Virginia, presented on educational gaps before and after COVID-19 and the challenges posed by the lack of a federal right to education.

On November 11, 2020, two experts presented on ageism and care for aging populations during the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for reform to adequately care for these populations. 

Alison E. Hirschel ’84, Director of the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative and Public Interest/Public Service Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School, discussed the regulation of nursing homes and the challenges of and problems with nursing homes’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nina Kohn, David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education at Syracuse University College of Law and Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, presented on how we should move forward with nursing home reform and regulation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Internal Medicine & Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, gave a talk on his new book, Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live.  His presentation is available below.

Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague — an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species.

On November 18, 2020, three experts presented on disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing variations in health outcomes by race, ethnicity, and sex.

Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, discussed the health disparities resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and NIH’s efforts supporting health disparities research.

Sarah S. Richardson, Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Director of the GenderSci Lab at Harvard University, presented on the sex disparities related to COVID-19 and variations across state, race, and socioeconomic status.

Kendall Thomas ’83, Nash Professor of Law and Co-Founder and Director of Center for the Study of Law & Culture at Columbia Law School, presented on structural racism in policing and governance and their role in the resulting disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African-Americans.

• Abbe R. Gluck (YLS '00) and Lawrence O. Gostin, "Why The End Of The Public Health Emergency Really Matters." Health Affairs Forefront (Apr. 2023)
• Lynette Martins, "Policy Proposals for Improving Air Quality in Schools."  Bill of Health (Apr. 2023)
• Hussain S. Lalani, Sarosh Nagar, Jerry Avorn, and Aaron S. Kesselheim “Not so fast on COVID Vaccine Price Hike.” Boston Globe (Mar. 2023)
• Hussain S Lalani, Sarosh Nagar, Ameet Sarpatwari, Rachel E Barenie, Jerry Avorn, Benjamin N Rome, Aaron S Kesselheim, “US public investment in development of mRNA covid-19 vaccines: retrospective cohort study.” The BMJ (Mar. 2023)
• Nina Kohn and Irina D Manta. "Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure," Bill of Health (Feb 2023) 
• Nina A. Kohn “COVID-19 and the Problem of Multiple Sufficient Cases” Bill of Health (Oct. 2022)
• Bonnie Kaplan “Ethics, Guidelines, Standards, and Policy: Telemedicine, COVID-19, and Broadening the Ethical Scope” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Jan. 2022)
• Joseph J. Fins. "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Building Community During Covid," The Hastings Center (Sept. 2021)
• Nina A. Kohn. "Long-Term Care After COVID: A Roadmap for Law Reform," Bill of Health (June 2021)
• Lori Bruce and Ruth Tallman. "Promoting racial equity in COVID-19 resource allocation," Journal of Medical Ethics (Apr. 2021)
• Joseph J. Fins. "COVID-19 Through Time," Issues in Science and Technology (Apr. 2021)
• Nina A. Kohn. "Covid awakened Americans to a nursing home crisis. Now comes the hard part.," Washington Post (Apr. 2021)
• Nina A. Kohn. "Nursing Homes, COVID-19, and the Consequences of Regulatory Failure," Georgetown Law Journal (Apr. 2021)
• Kimberly S. Resnick and Joseph J. Fins. "Professionalism and Resilience After COVID-19," Academic Psychiatry (Mar. 2021)
• Vignesh Subbian, Anthony Solomonides et al. (Bonnie Kaplan) “Ethics and informatics in the age of COVID-19: challenges and recommendations for public health organization and public policy” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (Jan. 2021)
• William B. Shultz and Reagan H. Marsh. "Who should get the COVID vaccine next?" USA Today (Dec. 2020)
• Emily Wang, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lisa Puglisi, Bruce Western. "Recommendations for Prioritization and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine in Prisons and Jails," Report (Dec. 2020)
• Bonnie Kaplan “Revisiting Health Information Technology Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues and Evaluation: Telehealth/Telemedicine and COVID-19” International Journal of Medical Informatics (Nov 2020)
• Sten H. Vermund. "There Really Is No Biden Covid-19 Fairy Tale," The Wall Street Journal (Nov. 2020)
• Nina A. Kohn. "Coronavirus isolated nursing home residents. Now it might keep them from voting," Washington Post (Oct. 2020)
• Benjamin Tolchin, Sarah C. Hull, and Katherine Kraschel. "Triage and justice in an unjust pandemic: ethical allocation of scarce medical resources in the setting of racial and socioeconomic disparities," Journal of Medical Ethics (Oct. 2020)
• Joseph J. Fins and Kenneth M. Prager. "The COVID-19 Crisis and Clinical Ethics in New York City," The Journal of Clinical Ethics (Sept. 2020)
• Stephen R. Latham, Lori Bruce, Katherine Kraschel, Mark Mercurio, et al. "Developing a Triage Protocol for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in a Public Health Emergency," The Journal of Clinical Ethics (Sept. 2020)
• Kenneth M. Prager and Joseph J. Fins. "Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19: The Response of Two Ethics Consultation Services in New York City," The Journal of Clinical Ethics (Sept. 2020)
• William B. Schultz. "Should We Fast-Track a Vaccine for the Coronavirus?" New York Times (Sept. 2020)
• Joseph J. Fins and Samuel Bagenstos. "The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A cause for celebration during COVID-19?" The Conversation (July 2020)
• Joseph J. Fins "COVID-19 makes clear that bioethics must confront health disparities," The Conversation (July 2020)
• Mark Barnes '84 “Challenges of ‘Return to Work’ in an Ongoing Pandemic,” The New England Journal of Medicine (June 2020)
• Joseph J Fins "Sunshine is the Best Disinfectant, Especially During a Pandemic," New York State Bar Association (June 2020)
• Nina A. Kohn. "The pandemic exposed a painful truth: America doesn’t care about old people," Washington Post (May 2020)
• Nina A. Kohn "Nursing homes need increased staffing, not legal immunity," The Hill (May 2020)
• Nina A. Kohn, “Addressing the crisis in long-term care facilities,” The Hill (Apr. 2020)
• Bill Aseltyne, Beth Essig, Debra L. Zumwalt, and Abbe R. Gluck (YLS ’00) "There’s Only One Thing Stopping Trump From Deporting Health Care Workers" New York Times (Apr. 2020)
• Katherine Kraschel, Erica Turret ’20,  Blake Shultz ’21, and Sara Tannenbaum M.D. wrote “COVID-19 Does Not Change The Right To Abortion,” Health Affairs (Apr. 2020)
• Joseph J. Fins. “Disabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force Report on Ventilator Allocation,” The Hastings Bioethics Forum (Apr. 2020)
• Abbe Gluck '00 “What happens when our insurance is tied to our jobs, and our jobs vanish,” the Washington Post (Apr. 2020)
• Blake Shultz ’21 and Evan Walker-Wells ’21 “Connecticut students lack insurance coverage during coronavirus pandemic,” Stamford Advocate (Apr. 2020)
• Viveca Morris, “COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to Animals is killing us too,” LA Times (Apr. 2020)
• Andrew Clark, Abbe R. Gluck (YLS ’00), Lisa Puglisi, and Emily Wang “Opinion: Prison outbreak affects health of entire state,” Connecticut Post (Mar. 2020)
• Joseph J. Fins “Disabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force Report on Ventilator Allocation,” The Hastings Bioethics Forum (Apr. 2020) 
• Abbe R. Gluck (YLS ’00) and Erica Turret (YLS ’20) "Happy Tenth Birthday, Obamacare: This Crisis Would Be Much Worse Without You," Health Affairs Blog (Mar. 2020)
• Abbe R. Gluck (YLS ’00), Erica Turret (YLS ’20), et al. “Health Care Priorities For A COVID-19 Stimulus Bill: Recommendations To The Administration, Congress, And Other Federal, State And Local Leaders From Public Health, Medical, Policy And Legal Experts,” Health Affairs Blog (Mar. 2020)
• Blake Shultz ’21 J.D./M.D., “COVID spread in prisons could overwhelm Connecticut hospitals,” Hartford Courant (Mar. 2020)

• Abbe Gluck ’00 is profiled in Yale Law School Today about her work on the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. (May 2023)

• Abbe Gluck ’00 is profiled in a Yale News story on her time at the as special counsel to the President and Special Counsel to the White House COVID-19 Response Team. (Feb. 2023)

• Dr. Joseph Fins, Visiting Professor of Law and Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law, was cited in an article by the New York Bar Association looking back at pandemic policy. (Jan. 2022)

• In January of 2021, Professor Abbe Gluck ’00 was announced to be joining White House as Special Counsel on President Joe Biden’s COVID Response Team.  (Jan 2021)

• Executive Director Katherine Kraschel was quoted in an article by the Lily on the abortion pills new availability via mail. (July 2020)

• Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law, Nina Kohn is quoted about the ability of long-term care facility residents to participate in elections in an article on ProPublica. (Aug. 2020)

• Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina Kohn is quoted in a story in MarketWatch about voting issues for long-term care facility residents (Aug. 2020)

• Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina Kohn is quoted about a Senate proposal that would grant nursing homes breathtaking immunity from liability. (Aug. 2020)

• Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina Kohn is quoted in Law360 about the implications of the new Safe to Work Act for patients and long-term care residents (July 2020)

• The recent work of Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina A. Kohn is discussed in a commentary about pandemic immunity orders for nursing homes and hospitals. (June 2020)

• Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina A. Kohn is featured in a PIX 11 News segment on nursing home liability (June 2020)

• A story in the Guardian references the work of and quotes Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina A. Kohn. (May 2020)

• Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law Nina A. Kohn is interviewed and quoted in a piece for Time Magazine (May 2020). 

• Visiting Professor Nina A. Kohn is quoted in an article in the Chicago Tribune about the challenges facing long-term care facilities in Illinois during COVID-19 and calls for increased regulation. (May 2020)

• Abbe R. Gluck ’00 was quoted in a Talking Points Memo article about the effect ending Obamacare would have on the COVID-19 pandemic. (May 2020)

• Executive Director Katie Kraschel was quoted in an article about patient privacy and COVID-19 data. (May 2020)

• Abbe Gluck '00 was quoted in a Washington Post article on federalism and the state-level response to the COVID crisis. (May 2020)

• Abbe R. Gluck ’00 was quoted in the New Haven Register about the federal government’s response to the production and distribution of PPE. (May 2020)

• Abbe Gluck '00 spoke at a "virtual march" organized by NeedMasksToday, bringing together experts from across Yale, politicians, and more than 1000 people online to demand adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline medical workers. The march and Professor Gluck's remarks were featured in a New Haven Register article. (May 2020)

• Professor Nina A. Kohn, YLS visiting professor, spoke at the African American Policy Forum's virtual panel series Under the Blacklight, in an episode exploring "COVID in Confinement" (Apr. 2020)

• Abbe Gluck '00 was a guest on ABC News where she discussed the impact of ending the DACA program in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Apr. 2020)Abbe Gluck '00 was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about President Trump’s choice not to reopen the Affordable Care Act exchanges to allow uninsured Americans to purchase health-care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic. (Apr. 2020)

• The Solomon Center was featured in a YLS today piece on the Center’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Mar. 2020)

• Abbe Gluck ’00, on a team of other public health experts issued a detailed policy recommendation to lawmakers at the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency (Mar. 2020)