Law in the time of COVID-19 / Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School
Publisher: Columbia Law School
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Coronavirus infections; Law and legislation; Government policy; Social aspects
Other titles: Law in the time of Coronaviris Disease Nineteen
Description: "Law in the Time of COVID-19 is the product of a joint effort by members of the faculty of Columbia Law School and several law professors from other schools. As academic lawyers we wanted to share our knowledge and insights about how law shapes responses to--and is itself shaped by--the unfolding crisis. This volume offers guidance for thinking about some the most pressing legal issues the pandemic has raised, especially (though not exclusively) for law in the United States: from the rights of prison inmates who live under conditions that make them exceptionally vulnerable to the highly contagious virus to the options for contracting parties who now face circumstances that make it impossible for them to live up to their past commitments ... the topics range widely and include issues related to human rights, public life and social welfare, private life, and the economy. The authors focused their knowledge on specific areas of the law. Many were joined by their students, who either helped draft a chapter or compiled further resources that are referenced in the chapters."--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Gillian Lester; title: Introduction  -- Katharina Pistor -- Human rights under strain.; title: Covid-19 and prisoners' rights  -- Gregory Bernstein, Stephanie Guzman, Maggie Hadley, Rosalyn M. Huff, Alison Hung, and Anita N.H. Yandle, wth Alexis Hoag and Bernard E. Harcourt; title: Linked fate: justice and the criminal legal system during the COVID-19 pandemic  -- Susan Sturm, Faiz Pirani, Hyun Kim, Natalie Behr, Zachary D. Hardwick; title: Immigration in the time of COVID-19  -- Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia -- Public life and social welfare.; title: Covid-19 and the law: elections  -- Richard Briffault; title: The new "essential": rethinking social goods in the wake of Covid-19  -- Olatunde Johnson; title: Public health law tools: a brief guide  -- Kristen Underhill; title: Child welfare and Covid-19: an unexpected opportunity for systematic change  -- Jane Spinak; title: Emergency exemptions from environmental laws  -- Michael Gerrard -- Private life.; title: Privacy and pandemics  -- Clarisa Lang; title: COVID-19 and LGBT rights  -- Suzanne Goldberg -- The economy under lockdown.; title: How to help small businesses survive COVID-19  -- Todd Baker and Kathryn Judge; title: Bankruptcy's role in the COVID-19 crisis  -- Edward R. Morrison and Andrea C. Saavedra; title: COVID-19 as a Force Majeure in corporate transactions  -- Matthew Jennejohn, Julian Nyarko, Eric Talley; title: A comparative perspective on commercial contracts and the impact of Covid-19: change of circumstances, Force Majeure, or what?  -- Christian Twigg-Flesner; title: Dispute resolution in pandemic circumstances  -- George Bermann; title: Driver for contactless payments  -- Ronald Mann; title: Appendix 1: COVID legal alerts from top 20 law firms & CPRBLOG organized by TOC  -- links provided by Professor Michael Gerrard; compiled by topic by Dana Neacsu and Michael Paul McParlane; title: Appendix 2: New York-based legal information  -- compiled by topic by Dana Neacsu; title: Appendix 3: Rules regarding medical labs running COVID-19 tests  -- links provided by Professor Michael Gerrard; compiled by topic by Dana Neacsu; title: Appendix 4: Additional resources  -- links provided by contributors; compiled by Michael Paul McParlane; title: Legal issues for workers & COVID-19 martials [sic] and resources -- AFL-CIO slides and resources in link above, made available by Mark Barenberg.