John Witt, Yale Law School, has published The Law of Salus Populi: Epidemics and the Law in the Yale Review. “For better and for worse,” he writes, “past American public health emergencies have reproduced the preexisting patterns and practices of law and politics, with all the vices and perhaps some of the virtues those patterns entail, reinforcing rather than revising the major themes of American life.”
--Dan Ernst
