Professor Katherine Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, is the co-editor of COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2023), a collection of essays that provides critical reflections on the many changes the pandemic has already introduced and what its legacy may be.

“This book identifies the right questions to ask as we take stock of pandemic realities and provides guidance for the many stakeholders of COVID-19’s legal legacy,” said Kraschel, a frequent commentator in the national press.

Kraschel’s co-editors of this collection of essays include Professor I. Glenn Cohen, faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; Professor Abbe Gluck, faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School; and Professor Carmel Shachar, faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. Northeastern Law faculty contributors to the collection, including Professor Wendy E. Parmet and Professor Jeremy Paul, evaluate how healthcare and government institutions have succeeded and failed during this global stress test, and explore how the US and the world will move forward to ensure we are better prepared for future pandemics.

This book must be on the essential reading list of anyone who wants to understand this unprecedented pandemic, and how it will impact our future.

— Professor Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University, on Covid-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy

If you haven’t read Professor Wendy E. Parmet’s new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health (Cambridge University Press, 2023), get thee to a bookstore! In the December 21, 2023, issue of The New York Review of Books, notable legal journalist Linda Greenhouse calls it “provocative and illuminating.”