Virtual General Meeting featuring. Michele Goodwin, UCI Professor of Law
April 20, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Civil Liberties in a Pandemic: The Lessons of History
Keynote Speaker: Michele Bratcher Goodwin, UCI Professor of Law
Legal & political concerns about the government’s exercise of authority during a pandemic & national health crisis
Professor Goodwin will address the need to balance the state’s authority to protect the public’s health and safety against encroachments upon civil rights and civil liberties. She will offer case studies to explain the history and political concerns related to the balancing acts the states must undertake. There will be time for Q&A’s.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. She is also the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics). She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies.
Civil Liberties in a Pandemic: The Lessons of History
Keynote Speaker:
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, UCI Professor of Law
Legal & political concerns about the government’s exercise of authority during a pandemic & national health crisis
Professor Goodwin will address the need to balance the state’s authority to protect the public’s health and safety against encroachments upon civil rights and civil liberties. She will offer case studies to explain the history and political concerns related to the balancing acts the states must undertake. There will be time for Q&A’s.
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About our speaker
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. She is also the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics). She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies.
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