In the News - January 18, 2020
Media Highlights
Why being anti-racist is not enough
ABA Journal—January 14, 2021
Richard Zitrin: “For us white progressives, deep self-examination is also not enough unless it’s abiding. There’s always more to understand.”
The COVID-19 Vaccine Debate: How Employer Decisions Could Help Or Hurt Businesses for Years to Come
Yahoo Life—January 14, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “Companies are generally well within their legal right to mandate employee vaccinations” — in the same way they can require things like hand-washing.
S.F. restaurants sue to get fees reimbursed because of shutdown
San Francisco Business Times—January 13, 2021
Shanin Specter: “As a matter of common sense, such a charge is wrong and where there’s a wrong there’s usually a remedy.”
San Francisco Chronicle—January 13, 2021
Rory Little: “The line between free speech and criminal incitement is a very murky and debatable one.”
Dollar General will pay its 157,000 workers to get COVID-19 vaccine
Kron 4—January 13, 2021
Dorit Reiss: “Employers generally have wide scope” to make rules for the workplace.
A Hall of Fame Lawyer, a ‘Real Housewife’ and a Stunning Fall
New York Times—January 13, 2021
Shanin Specter: “Taking your client’s funds is the professional equivalent of touching an electrified rail. It’s professional suicide.”
‘Historic tipping point’: Law experts compare situation in DC to Nixon Watergate hearings
ABC 7 News—January 13, 2021
Joel Paul: “It looks like we’re reaching a kind of historic tipping point, much like in the Watergate hearings when Senator Goldwater turned against President Nixon.”
A Twist In Style: How Distressed And Bankruptcy Investing Is Different This Time
Forbes—January 12, 2021
Jared Ellias: A 2020 study by Jared Ellias concludes that corporate restructurings are increasingly imposed by, and designed to maximize recovery for, pre-petition senior creditors alone.
Op-ed: Not convicted or indicted? Trump can pardon you anyway
Chicago Tribune—January 11, 2021
Aaron Rappaport: A recent analysis from Aaron Rappaport makes a powerful argument that specificity is indeed mandatory in presidential pardons.
Google union organizers could face retaliatory action, legal expert says
CBC—January 9, 2021
Veena Dubal: “Alphabet management have the option of ignoring the union’s asks, even if the employees organized under the union’s banner do have some legal protection.”
College and Community Stories
157 Deans Issue Statement on 2020 Election
157 law school deans from schools across the country published a statement addressing the 2020 election and the events that took place in the U.S. Capitol last week. The statement marks a rare occasion. It is unusual for such a diverse group of law deans to come together to speak as one on an issue that falls outside the ambit of legal education.
Scholarly Leadership
Veena Dubal, in collaboration with colleagues from Oxford University, received a Ford Foundation grant of $139,505 for a project titled “Fairwork United States: Towards Decent Working Conditions for Gig Workers.”
Jared Ellias published “Estimating the Need for Additional Bankruptcy Judges in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” 11 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. (Online Issue) 1 (2020) (with Benjamin Iverson & Mark Roe).
Jodi Short presented “Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking” at the AALS Open Source Program on The Power of Supply Chains (January 5, 2021).