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10 Apr 2020, 11:00 am
A lot of people (especially Michael Abramowicz at Volokh) were anticipating such lawsuits and writing about whether schools will have a force majeure defense. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 6:38 am
The campaign against coronavirus has had the side effect of reducing the spread of contagious disease more generally. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 3:12 am
Anthony Fauci is the target of a writerly hit job and I contribute to its correction [Tim Carney, Washington Examiner] Comparative federalism: Germany, with relatively decentralized, competitive, and local health care arrangements, offers lessons in tackling the crisis [Rob Schmitz, NPR (no central government approval needed for new diagnostic tests); Kai Weiss, CapX] This is not going to help: “Hospital Liability for Ventilator Shortages” [Michael Abramowicz] … [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 9:24 am
Since then, the article has gotten considerable attention, including a thoughtful Volokh Conspiracy post titled “The Right to Unmarry: A Proposal Within a Proposal” by Michael Abramowicz, a Family Law Prof Blog post titled “Marriage Proposal in Family Law Scholarly Article” by Margaret Ryznar, and a lovely Legal Theory Blog post titled “Frye Proposed to Romero: The Right to Unmarry: A Proposal” by… [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 8:13 am
A week ago, I suggested that mask mandates might be part of a reasoned COVID-19 response, but that some form of random experimentation would be helpful. [read post]
2 Apr 2020, 7:34 am
Brian Frye and Maybell Romero's new essay on The Right to Unmarry has a most unusual abstract: BLF: This is a marriage proposal in the form of a law review article. [read post]
2 Apr 2020, 7:03 am
Many clinic trials are exploring the safety and efficacy of potential treatments for COVID-19. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 10:53 am
My cobloggers Michael Abramowicz, Will Baude, Orin Kerr, and I will enjoy a couple of drinks and talk about what's been going on—perhaps about constitutional law in time of epidemics, force majeure clauses in contracts, distance learning and teaching and how much of it might continue after all this is over, or, basically, whatever else we feel like talking about on a Tuesday night. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 12:22 pm
Consider two recent examples of heterodox thought on COVID-19. [read post]
29 Mar 2020, 5:26 pm
Michael, Will, Orin, and I will enjoy a couple of drinks and talk about what's been going on—perhaps about constitutional law in time of epidemics, force majeure clauses in contracts, distance learning and teaching and how much of it might continue after all this is over, or, basically, whatever else we feel like talking about on a Tuesday night. [read post]
29 Mar 2020, 9:28 am
Writers in the Washington Post and the New York Times now agree with many other sources that masks may be useful in combatting COVID-19, perhaps because masks reduce the probability that the wearer will infect others or, at least by discouraging touching of the face, the probability that someone else will infect the wearer. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 11:58 am
If a hospital runs out of ventilators to treat its patients, will it be liable when patients die as a result? [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 2:58 am
” [Paul Matzko thread on Twitter] Asking former health care workers to “dust off their scrubs” and return for the emergency raises possible liability exposures [Lori Rosen Semlies, Wilson Elser] “Coronavirus could affect med mal rates: Experts” [Judy Greenwald, Business Insurance] A closer look at certificate of need laws, which suppress hospital bed supply [Eric Boehm, related audio clip with Jeffrey Singer, earlier and more] More on the relaxation of… [read post]
26 Mar 2020, 3:54 pm
Should patent law function differently during a pandemic? [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 9:33 am
Shortages of medical products, including but not limited to ventilators, personal protective equipment, and nasal swabs, continue to be a danger. [read post]
21 Mar 2020, 12:13 pm
In two recent posts, I blogged about the proposal from my article, Random Selection for Scaling Standards, With Applications to Climate Change, but in the blog posts, I used COVID-19 ventilator production as an example instead of the climate change examples from the article. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 8:46 am
Federal courts are adapting to the COVID-19 outbreak by increased use of video teleconferencing. [read post]
19 Mar 2020, 7:53 am
President Trump yesterday invoked the Defense Production Act, without actually issuing any orders pursuant to the statute. [read post]
17 Mar 2020, 12:31 pm
Some states are taking actions to relax occupational licensing requirements to address the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 9:58 am
In a previous post, I described a simple mechanism by which the government can encourage private spending toward some goal, such as reducing the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
