Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it
DANIEL J. SOLOVE
Digital connections permeate our lives. So do data breaches—and the passage of data security laws has not prevented those breaches from rising at a record pace. In “Breached!”, Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, two of the world’s leading experts on privacy and data security, argue that the laws fail because, ironically, they focus too much on the breaches themselves. Solove, the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, writes that it is difficult to create rules for securing personal information. This challenge is a troubling concern given how much time people spend online engaged in communication, managing their finances, addressing their health care, and more.
A Right to Lie? Presidents, Other Liars, and the First Amendment
CATHERINE J. ROSS
Is there a constitutional path for stopping a president whose untruths endanger lives and threaten democracy? Legal scholar Catherine J. Ross, the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, tackles that question in “A Right to Lie?” Ross addresses the urgent issue of whether the nation’s highest officials, including the president, have a right to lie under the Speech Clause of the U.S. Constitution regardless of the harm caused. Ross looks at the daunting constitutional and practical obstacles to reining in public deception. She also shows the incalculable damage that can be caused by mendacity, as evidenced by President Donald Trump’s lies about COVID-19 and the 2020 election.
Comparative and Global Environmental Law and Policy
LIN HARMON-WALKER and co-authors Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky, and Robert V. Percival
Lin Harmon-Walker, visiting associate professor of law and interim director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program, joined other leading legal experts in developing a student-friendly approach to the study of global environmental law. “Comparative and Global Environmental Law and Policy” uses a multi-jurisdictional selection of judicial opinions and legal materials to familiarize students with governing and emerging legal principles in this rapidly evolving area of law. The book details how legal norms are applied to specific issues and provides exercises and discussion questions to reinforce the lessons.
Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America
DAYNA BOWEN MATTHEW
Health care law is an of expertise for Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew. In “Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America”she explores how medical outcomes are worsened and life expectancies lowered by the deep structural racism in the United States. The dean presents evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system and then shows how those inequities undermine the health of minority populations. She also explores the unjust health care system and calls upon health care leaders and practitioners to dismantle barriers that are jeopardizing the wellbeing of millions of Americans. The book offers a pathway to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy. Dean Matthew is also the author of the bestselling book “Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care.”
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook
ROSA CELORIO
With the reproductive rights of U.S. women in the news, this casebook is especially timely. Rosa Celorio, the Burnett Family Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in International and Comparative Law and Policy, offers an overview of global and regional legal standards related to women’s rights and explores their application to contemporary issues, including COVID-19, the #MeToo Movement, climate change, gender identity, and the digital world. In every country of the world, women and girls continue to experience daily violations of their civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. This book reflects Celorio’s work as a scholar and her 20 years of experience litigating cases. She has collaborated with several UN agencies and the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States to advance women’s rights.