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[Priya Gupta] Monday, April 20, 2020 Manifest Disparities told through Figures; or, death by the numbers. In Louisiana, the state with the fourth highest number of COVID-19 cases (nearly 25,000 confirmed cases as of April 20, 2020), 70% of the deaths are African Americans. African Americans are 33% of Louisiana’s population. The Morial Convention CenterContinue reading “Notes on Race during COVID-19”

[John E. Mogk] Thursday, April 16, 2020 The City of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan, the metropolitan area in which it is located, have become national hot spots for the spread of Covid-19. 

[Priya Gupta] Wednesday, April 15, 2020 This is an unprecedented time in our nation’s history, filled with uncertainty, fear, and anxiety. But in the time of a crisis, our response to those at particularly high risk must be with compassion and not apathy. The Government cannot act with a callous disregard for the safety ofContinue reading “Open letter from U.S. legal academics to DHS on the release of immigrant detainees”

[Alexander Somek] Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1. Two days ago, I watched a documentary on how China and South Korea have dealt quite effectively with the Corona Crisis. Seeing what has happened in these societies, one realizes that the imaginary of dystopian films no longer remains fictional. The whereabouts of people suspected to be carriersContinue reading “Necessity; Or: The Tyranny of Goals”

[Philip Liste] Thursday, April 9, 2020 * Einer geht mit seinem ferngesteuerten Auto Gassi Irgendwo in der durch vereinzelnde Solidarität gestifteten Einsamkeit der Stadt * PL 3.22.2020

[Marius Gulbranson Nordby] Wednesday, April 8, 2020 The last few weeks have given me a crash course in many things digital, particularly the different platforms for video conversations. For example, I hosted a digital book launch on Zoom. It was for a book about environmental ethics seen through the lens of Jurassic Park. It isContinue reading “Who is it all for?”

[Niklas Eder] Tuesday, April 7, 2020 While packing my stuff to leave New York City, I am thinking about the statement that Peer made in his earlier post: „The crisis reveals the often hidden, more often swept-off-the-table and silenced calamities of the neoliberal destruction of the welfare state”.

[Morag Goodwin] Monday, April 6, 2020 On one day last week, I conducted 53 interviews with potential students interested in starting our LL.B. Global Law. The interviews are the conversational equivalent of a hit-and-run, limited to +/- 10 minutes by the sheer number of registrations. The applicants came from all over, with every continent represented,Continue reading “Not that big a deal?”

[Hilary Wolkoff] Friday, April 3, 2020 Here are some images of New York from the end of March:

[Simon Archer] Thursday, April 2, 2020 We are all in our own form of isolation from the plague; perhaps this is our Decameron.