Ready for the Pace Law Review Symposium Bioethics After Dobbs with this dream team! Rachel Rebouche Thomas Williams I. Glenn Cohen Teneille Brown and Megan Wright (fun fact: we all car pooled together in the same car 🚗). Thanks for having us James Toomey! Program: plr.blogs.pace.edu/spring-symposi…

NPR is saying goodbye to Twitter and so am I. Our CEO writes “the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.” Find us anywhere else. Find me on instagram @leilafadelnpr

Great work to consider from my colleague Lewis Grossman on choice and drug access

Mermaids can be Black. Hobbits can be Black. Elves can be Black. Dwarves can be Black. Jedi can be Black. None of these things are real, so, any of them can be Black, and you can stop being racist.

Please join Faculty Director Maya Manian on September 12th at 3pm ET/12pm PT for a virtual discussion on the future of reproductive rights in the US and the implications of state laws following the Dobbs decision, hosted by ACS Oregon Lawyer Chapter. Register here: getinvolved.acslaw.org/component/even…

Though the abortion crisis is already devastating, David S. Cohen Rachel Rebouche & I explain in The Atlantic that the worst is yet to come. Expect states to impose their abortion laws outside their borders, to criminalize patients + helpers & to enact personhood laws theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

How would you know this tastes like human flesh, though?

Alito yesterday vs. today on the relevance of societal consequences:

Important words.

Bull City's finest recognized! axios.com/local/raleigh/…

A starting point. triangleblogblog.com/2022/06/07/met…

It’s been wonderful to join my colleagues Lewis Grossman Thomas Williams Asha Scielzo Health Law AUWCL at #HLP22 - thank you for hosting a terrific conference Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU James G Hodge Jr

UMBC Proud.

Well, this is stressful.

Attn #lawtwitter : interested in becoming a law professor? Or know someone who is? #SEALS2022 will host two workshops - one if you're applying for jobs this summer and one if you're still thinking about it. sealslawschools.org/uncategorized/…

Kudos to Tulane University and shame on SSRN

'Prof. Thomas Williams brings a tremendous addition to WCL's top-rated Health Law program,” Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. said. “His interdisciplinary scholarship in health law, bioethics, and race and the law builds upon and extends our strengths in these important areas.' Thomas Williams

The lines are moving folks.
cnn.com/2021/11/22/eur…

There is a viral disease

Where most infections are mild, asymptomatic

With a very low fatality rate

And large age gradient: kids are even lower risk than adults

And less than 1% of kids have any serious complications at all

Yup

Polio

And we vaccinate against it

Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.

One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.

Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)