Tag: COVID-19
Making Mandatory: Vaccines in the Workplace
About the Author: Austin Peng is a J.D. candidate in the class of 2022 at Cornell Law School. As a University of Miami graduate with a degree in Economics, Austin is interested in issues involving financial regulation and tax law. He is an Online Associate for Cornell Law School’s Journal of Law and Public Policy,…
30 Apr 2021
Zooming in on Student Surveillance: Protecting Student Privacy in the Age of COVID-19
(Source) Exams are stressful even under the best of conditions. Exams taken virtually, as so many students over this previous year have found out, have presented a brand new set of challenges that can magnify student stress. But, imagine for a moment that you cannot even get into your exam, because the exam software does…
2 Apr 2021
Running Out of Beds: How COVID-19 Demonstrates the Need to Repeal State Certificate of Need Laws
(Source) During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, states struggled in part because the disease caused demand for hospital beds to outstrip supply. Around one month into the pandemic, in New York City, for example, only about 300 intensive care unit (“ICU”) beds remained available. States reacted by creating more medical…
29 Mar 2021
Immunity Passports: A Silver Bullet or a Security Blanket?
(Source) As COVID-19 infection rates remain high, many wonder when and how life will return to normal. The policies currently in place to limit the number of new infections have primarily focused on restricting movement and access to public spaces. While this has helped limit the spread of the virus, it has also resulted in…
19 Mar 2021
Evictions Are Coming: An In-Depth Look at the COVID-19 Eviction Crisis
(Source) In the United States, nearly 1.4 million people per year spend time in a shelter, and there are more homeless people than the population of some rural states. For those living in city centers, it is an unignorable issue. A home is a foundation on which people build their lives—losing the place you call…
5 Mar 2021
A Dodger’s Dilemma: The Possibility of Civil Liability for Justin Turner’s World Series Celebration
(Source) The Los Angeles Dodgers finally broke “The Curse of ‘88” and won the World Series on October 27, 2020, beating the Tampa Bay Rays four games to two. While the Dodger’s Fall Classic win certainly attracted a large source of attention, a significant portion of news centered not on the game itself but instead…
26 Feb 2021
No More Zoom Law School?: The Constitutionality of Mandatory Vaccine Laws
(Source) “We’re very close to [the COVID-19] vaccine,” former President Trump stated in a press brief on September 16, 2020, suggesting that a vaccine could be ready by election day. Then-President-elect Biden responded that he did not trust the President to determine when a vaccine would be ready for the public. On November 9, 2020,…
16 Feb 2021
Work or Child Care: What Employers Can Do to Alleviate Burdens on Working Mothers
(Source) Facebook and Twitter have announced that they will allow their employees to work from home indefinitely, and other companies are considering adopting a similar policy. Remote work can benefit both employees and employers as employees no longer have to commute and employers can cut costs in rent. However, remote work can also be a…
15 Jan 2021
Increased Tuition for an Inferior Product: The University’s Guide to Not Caring
(Source) Imagine you decided to go to the dealership to buy yourself a brand-new car. After carefully researching the model and make of car and shopping around for a good deal, you finally decide to make the purchase. When the car gets delivered, you are excited to take it out for a drive, only to…
9 Nov 2020