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Reforming Law Enforcement Labor Relations

As law professors and legal professionals, we felt compelled to respond to the current moment by bringing our collective experience in labor and civil rights law to bear on urgently needed reforms in policing. We formed a study group to consider possible changes to law enforcement labor relations with the goal of proposing politically feasible reforms that could be quickly implemented and would meaningfully address some of the grave problems in policing…

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Blog, May 2020, Catherine Albiston, Catherine L. Fisk California Law Review Blog, May 2020, Catherine Albiston, Catherine L. Fisk California Law Review

COVID-19 Reveals Gaping Holes in U.S. Social Safety Net

COVID-19 is indeed a global emergency, but for millions of families, the lack of social support in the United States has been an emergency for a long time. This isn’t a new problem, only one that is newly visible in this simultaneous health care crisis for everyone. Perhaps the long-term comparative welfare of families in industrialized countries with minimally adequate social support and the few, like the United States, without it, will show the folly of ignoring this emergency for too long…

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