Miriam A. Cherry presented “Gig Workers as Essential Workers” to the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law on October 9, 2020.
Chad Flanders delivered a talk on “Alaska Exceptionalism in Election Law” as part of the Alaska Law Review symposium, October 30, 2020.
Yvette Joy Liebesman will moderate the Section on Art Law’s panel, New Voices in Art Law Scholarship: Art Law Works-in-Progress, AALS Annual Conference on January 5, 2021.
William P. Johnson was a speaker at the Diversity, Equity, Justice: Concrete Actions for Righting the Wrongs of Racial Injustice in the Legal Profession conference, as part of BAMSL 2020 Bench & Bar Virtual Conference, on August 31, 2020.
Elizabeth Pendo spoke on “Substance Use Disorder Discrimination, and The CARES Act: Using Disability Law to Inform Part 2 Rulemaking,” at Arizona State University School of Law, on December 14, 2020. Elizabeth spoke on “Disability Discrimination in Health Care and COVID-19” at Creighton University School of Law, October 20, 2020. In October, Elizabeth spoke on “Working in a Pandemic: The Future of Remote Work and Disability Law, Privacy in a Pandemic: How Employers, Insurers and Government Actors Collect and Use Your Data” at The University of Oklahoma College of Law on October 16, 2020. She also presented “Centering Marginalized Groups in Interdisciplinary Bioethics Courses: Strategies and Resources for Teachers” at the ASBH Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh,” on October 15, 2020 and “Providing Inclusive Care for People with Disabilities” at the National Clinics Collaborative, October 13, 2020.
That same day, Elizabeth presented “ADA and Disability Health Equity during the Pandemic” at the ADA@30, at Yale Law School, on October 13, 2020. She also presented "Disability Discrimination in Health Care and COVID-19", University of Florida Levin College of Law, October 12, 2020. She was also a participant at a workshop at American University Washington College of Law’s conference on Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy, on October 2, 2020. Elizabeth presented “Medical Documentation for the Workplace” to SLU’s Family Practice Residency Program on September 29, 2020.
Ana Santos Rutschman presented “The Color of COVID: COVID-19 Vaccines” at the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity webinar, Saint Louis University in December 2020. She spoke about “What Could Congress Do about the Pandemic” at the Emory University & Georgia State University Workshop in December. Ana presented “The Law & Ethics of Medical Research,” as part of the Lee E. Teitelbaum Utah Law Review Symposium in November, 2020. She spoke about “Bias and the Implications of Algorithms, Facial Recognition, and Machine Learning Technologies” at the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law Symposium at American University Washington College of Law in November 2020. In November, Ana presented at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Symposium. Also in November, Ana presented “Law for the Next Pandemic” at the University of Chicago Legal Forum Symposium: Law for the Next Pandemic, University of Chicago Law School.
Matthew Tuegel presented "Library Access and Where to Find It: Removing Barriers Both Real and Perceived" at the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries Virtual Meeting 2020.
Constance Wagner was reappointed as the Vice Chair of Publications for the ABA Section of International Law International Human Rights Committee.
Sidney D. Watson presented “Medicaid & Health Reform” to the Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice's Children and Maternal Health Class in November 2020. She gave a talk on “Structural Racism in Medicaid” at the American Association of Health and Human Services Attorneys Annual Conference in October 2020. She also presented “Medicaid Law in the Time of Pandemics” at the University of California Hastings College of Law Health Law Seminar, in October 2020. Sidney is the co-PI on a a research project funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health to inform implementation of Medicaid Expansion in Missouri.
Ruqaiijah Yearby presented “Systemic Racism, The Government’s Pandemic Response, and Racial Inequities in COVID-19” at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on December 14, 2020. She discussed “Equitable Allocation of Vaccines and Vaccine Hesitancy,” sponsored by the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at Saint Louis University on December 11, 2020. She also spoke about “Applying the Justice Principle to Human Subjects Research” at the PRIM&R Conference, December 9, 2020.
On December 9, 2020, Ruqaiijah presented on the topic of “Systemic Racism, the Government’s Pandemic Response, and Racial Inequities in COVID-19” at the ABA and German Marshall Fund Conference. She also spoke on “Race Based Medicine, Colorblind Disease: How Racism in Medicine Harms Us All” at the National Student Bioethics Association on December 4, 2020. She spoke on “Direct Care Workers, Emergency Preparedness, and Disparities in COVID-19” for the PHI New Jersey Direct Care Workforce Conference on November 10, 2020. She spoke on “Structural Racism, COVID-19, and Essential Workers” at Washington and Lee University School of Law on October 29, 2020. She presented “Direct Care Workers and Disparities in COVID-19” at the American Bar Association – State and Local Government Meeting, October 28, 2020.
On October 26, 2020, Ruqajiijah spoke on “COVID-19 legal briefings: A conversation with the experts” with the American Public Health Association. She also spoke on “Using disparities data to spur local policy change to improve social determinants of health” at the American Public Health Association on October 26, 2020. She spoke on “Applying the Justice Principle to Human Subjects Research” with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, on October 20, 2020. She also presented “COVID-19 and inequities- Law and Bioethics Affinity Group Discussion” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities on October 17, 2020. She spoke on “Whose Justice? Whose Flourishing? Diabetes and Race in Maryland” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 16, 2020. She presented “Centering Marginalized Groups in Interdisciplinary Bioethics Courses” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, on October 15, 2020.
Ruqaiijah presented “Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Inequities During and After COVID-19” at Harvard Law School – Petrie Flom Center - Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop, on October 13, 2020 and at SMU Dedman School of Law. She also participated in a workshop on Critical Perspectives in Health Law & Policy at American University Washington College of Law on October 2, 2020.
