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Will Coronavirus Stop America from Carrying Out Executions?

Guest columnist Austin Sarat—Associate Provost, Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College—points out one unusual effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: deferring the executions of death row inmates. Sarat observes that while past pandemics have not affected the rate at which states have executed inmates, last week the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted 60-day stays in the execution sentences of two men, and other states seem poised to follow suit.

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Rethinking Generational Justice in Light of the Coronavirus Catastrophe

Cornell law professor Michael C. Dorf observes that the unfolding catastrophe of COVID-19, the now-pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, will require all of us—whatever our politics, religion, race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and age—to come together and unite to defeat it. Dorf builds upon insights by Verdict columnist and University of Florida Law professor Neil Buchanan that generational justice is the wrong lens through which to view questions about funding Social Security because the real distributional problems in our society exist in the here in now and require people to work together, not at cross-purposes.

    Meet our Columnists
    Vikram David Amar
    Vikram David Amar

    Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois... more

    Neil H. Buchanan
    Neil H. Buchanan

    Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar, holds the James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar... more

    Sherry F. Colb
    Sherry F. Colb

    Sherry F. Colb is the C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell University. Colb teaches courses in... more

    John Dean
    John Dean

    John Dean served as Counsel to the President of the United States from July 1970 to April 1973.... more

    Michael C. Dorf
    Michael C. Dorf

    Michael C. Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School. He... more

    Samuel Estreicher
    Samuel Estreicher

    Samuel Estreicher is the Dwight D. Opperman Professor, Director, Center for Labor and Employment... more

    Leslie C. Griffin
    Leslie C. Griffin

    Dr. Leslie C. Griffin is the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las... more

    Joanna L. Grossman
    Joanna L. Grossman

    Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law at SMU Dedman School... more

    Marci A. Hamilton
    Marci A. Hamilton

    MARCI A. HAMILTON is the Fels Institute of Government Professor of Practice, and Fox Family... more

    Joseph Margulies
    Joseph Margulies

    Mr. Margulies is a Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University. He was Counsel of... more

    Austin Sarat
    Austin Sarat

    Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at... more

    Lesley Wexler
    Lesley Wexler

    Lesley Wexler is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Immediately... more

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    Justice Denied What America Must Do to Protect Its Children
    Constitutional Law, Cases and Materials (University Casebooks)
    Family Law in New York
    God vs. the Gavel The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty
    Gender Equality Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship
    Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America
    Constitutional Law Concise Edition (University Casebooks)
    The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech: Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate
    Pure Goldwater
    Warren G. Harding (The American Presidents Series)
    Blind Ambition: The White House Years
    The Debt Ceiling Disasters: How the Republicans Created an Unnecessary Constitutional Crisis and How the Democrats Can Fight Back
    Conservatives Without Conscience
    Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
    The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
    The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
    Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law
    Gender & Law: Theory Doctrine & Commentary, Sixth Edition
    Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
    Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans
    Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans
    Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace