Public Health and Legal Policy
The Initiative on Public Health and Legal Policy provides a forum for collaborative engagement on matters of local, state, national, and global public health. The Initiative works to build synergies and amplify the importance of public health in law. It supports the work of scholars and graduate students to engage in policy-related programming and scholarship.
Town Hall on Inclusive Healthcare in UC System
Responding to Covid-19 and Pandemics
The CBGHP has been at the forefront of academic discourse and engagement on COVID-19 through symposia, colloquia, public commentary, and collaboration. This work has garnered national and international attention, during the pandemic. Here is a brief overview.- Michele Goodwin & Erwin Chemerinsky, Civil Liberties in a Pandemic: The Lessons of History, __ Cornell L. Rev. __ (2021) (forthcoming).
- Michele Goodwin & Erwin Chemerinsky, The Trump Administration: Immigration, Racism, and COVID-19, 169 U. Pa. L. Rev. 313 (2021).
- Professor Goodwin featured on Morning Wave in Busan and TBS International to provide insight into the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine passport and its potential ramifications for civil rights and liberties (Janaury 13, 2021).
- Professor Goodwin interviewed on tbs eFM This Morning to provide insight on the controversy and feasibility of vaccine passports in the post-COVID era (January 5, 2021).
- Natasha Singer, Vaccinated? Show Us Your App, New York Times (December 13, 2020).
- Kiera Feldman, California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread, Los Angeles Times (October 11, 2020).
- Michele Goodwin, Pandemic Constitutional Rights: Not an All-Or-Nothing Proposition, Newsweek (June 4, 2020)
- Michele Goodwin, Don’t let California government use COVID-19 as an excuse to expand surveillance, Sacramento Bee (May 3, 2020).
- Michele Goodwin, Injecting Bleach Is Not An Elixir For What Ails The United States, Ms. Magazine (April 27, 2020).
- Michele Goodwin, Weaponizing Racism in the Wake of COVID-19, Ms. Magazine (March 25, 2020).
- Cornell Law Review Online Symposium: Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond
- Michele Goodwin, Women on the Front Line, __ Cornell L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2021).
- Lori Andrews & Bora Ndregjoni, COVID, Sex Discrimination, and Medical Research, 106 Cornell Law Review 129 (April 30, 2021).
- Allison M. Whelan, Unequal Representation: Women in Clinical Research, 106 Cornell Law Review Online 87 (April 2, 2021).
- Petrie-Flom Center's Bill of Health Digital Symposium: Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond
- Aziza Ahmed, The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19, Petrie-Flom Center: Bill of Health (December 7, 2020).
- Browne C. Lewis, COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health, Petrie-Flom Center: Bill of Health (December 4, 2020).
- Mariah A. Lindsay, Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19, Petrie-Flom Center: Bill of Health (December 3, 2020).
- Ifeoma Ajunwa, COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality, Petrie-Flom Center: Bill of Health (December 2, 2020).
- Mary Ziegler, The COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals the Stakes of the Campaign Against Abortion, Petrie-Flom Center: Bill of Health (December 1, 2020).
- Allison M. Whelan, Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond, Petrie-Flom Center: Bill of Health (November 20, 2020).
- UCI Law Speaker Series Law & Policy in the Biden-Harris Administration: Civil Liberties in a Pandemic: The Lessons of History (April 2, 2021).
- Public Counsel's Hour of Justice Online Conversation Series: Can We Look to the Courts for Justice? (February 23, 2021).
- A Conversation About Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Presidential Authority, Poverty, and the Supreme Court. Featuring: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley School of Law; Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Chair, UC Irvine School of Law; Mark Rosenbaum, Director of Public Counsel’s Opportunity Under Law; Tanya Acker, Co-Host of CBS's Hot Bench.
- UCI Stem Cell Research Center's (SCRC) COVID-19 Presentation & Panel: SCRC Experts Address COVID-19 Pandemic (May 14, 2020).
- UCI Law: Quarantine and the Limits of Government Action by Prof. Michele Goodwin (May 13, 2020).
- American Constitution Society Podcasts: Unequal Protection: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color (May 4, 2020).
- ACLU Podcast: At Liberty: A COVID-19 Balancing Act: Public Health and Privacy (April 29, 2020).
- Slate's Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick: The Law of Public Health (March 14, 2020).
Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond
The CBGHP collaborated with the Cornell Law Review to host, Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond, an online symposium that examined the political, economic, social, and legal status of women. The symposium made interventions along the lines of sex, race, and class to understand the persistence of women’s inequality and invisibility at a critical juncture in American history marked by both the 150th and 100th year anniversaries of the 15th and 19th Amendments, respectively, as well as troubling contemporary times demarcated by the COVID-19 pandemic, political turmoil, and racial unrest. As the authors revealed, the pandemic exacerbates underlying systemic patterns of discrimination against women.
The symposium was co-sponsored by the Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics; Harvard Law School's Petrie Flom Center; the American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics; The Hastings Center; and Ms. Magazine.