Research, writing, and advocating for change
Despite the pandemic, the 2020 Chayes International Public Service Fellows pursued projects around the world.
Simulating responses to election disinformation
In an effort to combat multiple potential vectors of attack on the 2020 U.S. election, two Berkman Klein Center affiliates have published a package of “tabletop exercises,” freely available to decisionmakers and the public to simulate realistic scenarios in which disinformation threatens to disrupt the 2020 election.
Building public trust in a coronavirus vaccine
In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Carmel Shachar, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, says that political interference in the FDA’s process for ensuring that a vaccine is both safe and effective “opens the door to a public health disaster.”
Race and Health: Panelists examine the connection between law and racial vulnerability to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the health disparities that result from systemic and structural racism. But while the law has created these disparities, it may also provide opportunities to correct them.
How COVID-19 has changed the workplace in 2020
Sharon Block and Ben Sachs of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program discuss COVID-19’s continued impact on the workplace and worker’s rights to a safe and healthy work environment.
Cass Sunstein tapped to chair WHO technical advisory group
Cass Sunstein ’78, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, has been tapped by the World Health Organization to chair its Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.
‘Feeding the virus’?
“Confused,” “frustrating,” “fragmented,” “acute,” and “a reckoning” were just some of the ways three health care experts described the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic during a recent Berkman Klein virtual discussion.
Human Rights in a Time of Populism and COVID-19
Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program recently spoke with Professor Gerald Neuman about how he sees the landscape changing for countries with populist leaders in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pandemic has exacerbated longstanding problems with the prison system
COVID-19 presents a unique threat to people in prisons and jails, agreed panelists at “Incarcerated Populations and COVID-19: Public Health, Ethical, and Legal Concerns,” a webinar hosted by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.
Harvard Law School expects robust, high-quality online program for the fall 2020
To better ensure the health and safety of its community amid the global pandemic, Harvard Law School programming will be remote for the Fall 2020 semester, Dean John F. Manning ’85 announced Wednesday.