SLS COVID-19 Research, Analysis and Expert Opinion

Stanford Law School faculty are actively engaged in trying to solve the real and urgent legal and policy issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and influencing the national conversation, from spearheading research projects, hosting events to facilitate discussions and learnings, providing expertise to journalists, publishing articles and opinion pieces, and more. Covering a wide range of subject matter including elections, immigration, privacy, ethics, intellectual property, and health policy, here is a selection of their latest work related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SLS News & Announcements

Michelle M. Mello — Stanford Law Professor Co-Authors Report on the Benefits of Wastewater Surveillance for Combating Infectious Diseases
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SLS Students Launch Nonprofit, Matching Tutors with Students In Need
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Stanford Scholars Find No Partisan Advantage of Mail-In, Absentee Voting But Other Challenges Lie Ahead
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Stanford Works With California Prisons to Test and Prevent COVID-19
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Voting Technology 1 — Stanford Law’s Nate Persily on the Need for Safe 2020 Elections
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Stanford Law School Launches Covid-19 Legal Podcast Series 3 — SLS COVID-19 Discussions – Domestic Violence, Persons with Disabilities and Voting Rights
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Faculty Op-eds

New Faculty: Michelle Mello — The Missing Piece — SARS-CoV-2 Testing and School Reopening

(This op-ed was first published in The New England Journal of Medicine on October 21, 2020.) On August 17, 2020, the Los Angeles Unified School District launched a program to test more than 700,000 students and staff for SARS-CoV-2. The district is paying a private contractor to provide next-day, early-morning results for…
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Attacks on Public Health Officials During COVID-19

Partitioning the Curve — Interstate Travel Restrictions During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Time for a Nationwide Eviction Moratorium is Now

Courts Will Need to Adapt to the Coronavirus Crush

Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines Against SARS-CoV-2

It’s Not Too Late to Save the 2020 Election

Legal Aggregate

Mark A. Lemley — Stanford’s Mark Lemley on the Moderna IP Dispute with US Government

Vaccines have been an invaluable tool in fighting COVID-19, offering protections to millions. It has also raised interesting questions about intellectual property. Development of the Moderna vaccine took years and included a four-year collaboration between the company and the NIH—the U.S. government investing both time from its scientists but also…
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Stanford’s Michelle Mello and David Studdert on Proof of Vaccination and the Ongoing Fight Against COVID-19

Coronavirus Vaccines and the Law

The High-Stakes Count: Stanford's Pam Karlan and Nate Persily on Taking the Census During a Pandemic

Post-COVID Courts

Stanford Law's Michelle Mello on California's COVID-19 Spike and Measures to Bend the Curve

Privacy and New Google-Apple COVID-19 Tracing Technology

Media Coverage

Transparency by drug companies, scrutiny by journalists, vital in vaccine news

Pandemic Politics

About 110,000 Californians have bought a gun since the coronavirus arrived, study says

App for COVID-19 contact tracing faces hurdles, generational divide over privacy concerns

What We Can Learn From the Most Successful Covid-19 Bubbles

Nóra Al Haider On Improving Court Access During COVID-19

Lancet Medical Journal Changes Peer-Review Process Amid Flurry of Covid-19 Research

Mask skeptic lawmaker takes on side gig overseeing drug company trial

COVID-19 Discussions

Stanford Law faculty, students and colleagues are actively engaged in addressing the important legal and policy challenges that have emerged as cities, states and countries respond to the novel coronavirus. This audio series includes discussions at the law school that are focused on the wide array of legal and policy issues that are related to the COVID-19 pandemic.