Greetings from the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative.
We hope you and yours are safe and healthy during this unprecedented time. The VHC at Emory Law is committed to providing opportunities for growth and connection, even as we continue working remotely and socially distancing. Read below for information about upcoming workshops, publications, and ways to interact with us virtually.
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We will hold our first virtual workshop, "Vulnerability and Corporate Subjectivity," in October. This workshop will critically consider the neoliberal corporation, drawing on the analytical tools offered by the vulnerability theory, and will allow participants to think through the complex relationships between corporations as legal subjects, legal or state governance of corporate activity, and the hope to achieve goals of social justice within a neoliberal age.
View the schedule here and register for the workshop here.
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Reflections on the Pandemic |
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"I hope our future will be marked by a growing sense of social solidarity, a growing commitment to racial and economic equality, and to insuring a better world for all of our children."
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"I spent spring semester in Nairobi, Kenya and just like my colleagues in Atlanta, was compelled to revisit my research plans due to COVID-19 and the lockdown that it entailed." Read more here.
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"For each of us, life is so precious that we have to be responsible for ourselves as well as those around us. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." Read more here.
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"This pandemic has laid bare our universal vulnerability and forced us to focus on our most basic survival needs. It has exposed the devastating physical and emotional harm caused by state neglect and the profound inequality of individual choice." Read more here.
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Vulnerability Scholar Publications and News
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Dr. Jahid Bhuiyan
Honors and Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2020-2022)
- Researcher, Max Planck Institute for International Law, Heidelberg
Publications
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Professor Deborah Dinner
Speeches:
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, via Zoom (April 2020) Invited Talk, “Valuing Homemaking Labor”
- University of Houston Law Center, via Zoom (April 2020) Invited Talk, “Valuing Homemaking Labor”
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Professor Martha A. Fineman
Honors and Speeches
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Special Guest Editor, “Complexities of Care and Caring,” Special Issue, SIGNS magazine.
- Distinguished Lecturer, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University (2020-2021)
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Keynote Address, International Society of Family Law (August 2020)
Publications
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Dr. SN Nyeck
Interview
- Interview, "Vulnerability and Public Procurement," Voices in Vulnerability. Podcast. July 2020.
Publication
- Gender Equality in Public Procurement (2020). In: Farazmand A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1598-1
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Professor Teemu Ruskola
Honors
- “People, Inc.? Law, Economic Enterprise, and the Development of Inequality in China,” 67 American Journal of Comparative Law 383 (2019)
Publications
- “The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory,” in Cold War International Law 376 (Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja & Gerry Simpson eds., Cambridge University Press 2019)
- Visiting Distinguished Professor, National University in Singapore in Jan-Feb. 2019.
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Professor Atieno Mboya Samandari
Publication
- Human vulnerability and environmental rights: the Endorois Welfare Council v. Kenya case. In Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Edward Elgar, April 2019
Awards
- U.S. Fulbright Scholar Grant, to teach and carry out research in Kenya, at the University of Nairobi's Parklands Law School, for the 2020-2021 year. The Fellowship will run from January to July 2021. In addition to teaching International Environmental Law and Human Rights Law in Nairobi, I will build on previous Kenya Water Law research, in which I collaborated with Parklands faculty to study the legal framework for water access in Kenya. My Fulbright research will examine gender dimensions of water access in Nairobi County, using a human vulnerability framework.
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Professor Ani B. Satz
Publications
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Health Care as Eugenics in Health Care as Eugenics in Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics (I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers & Michael Ashley Stein eds. (Cambridge UP 2020)
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The Federalism Challenges of Protecting Workers’ Medical Privacy, 94 Ind. L. J. 1555 (2019)
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Animal Welfare Act: Interaction with Other Laws, 25 Animal L. Rev. 185 (2019) (with Delcianna Winders) (symposium)
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Exploring New Technologies in Biomedical Research, Forward, Drug Discovery Today, Apr. 4, 2019, available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2019.04.001 (with Kambez H. Benam, Siobhan Gilchrist, Andre Kleensang, Catherine Willett & Qiang Zhang) (symposium)
Discussions & Speeches
- Roundtable Participant, Discussion Group: Current Topics in Bioethics and Public Health, Health Law Workshop, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, online (Aug. 4, 2020)
- Roundtable Participant, Best Practices in Disability Law, Discussion Group: Pedagogical Trends and Techniques in Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and Labor Law, Employment Discrimination Law Workshop, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, online (Aug. 4, 2020)
- COVID and Disability (working title), Emory/UGA summer workshop, online (June-July 2020)
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Professor Liza Vertinsky
Publication
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Y. Heled, A. Santos Rutschman and L. Vertinsky, The Problem with Relying on Profit Driven Models to Produce Pandemic Drugs, forthcoming in The Journal of Law and the Biosciences (2020).
Amicus brief
- Amicus brief concerning sperm bank liabiity -- Norman v Xytex (co-authored with T. Lytton and Y. Heled), Supreme Court of Georgia, Case No. S19G1486
Presentation
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“The Procurement of Public Health Litigation and its Implications for Public Health,” (with R. Guttman), 2020 Annual Health Law Conference: Public Health Litigation: Possibilities and Pitfalls, Northeastern School of Law, April 17, 2020.
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Professor Barbara B. Woodhouse
Amicus Brief
The case of Juliana v. U.S. was brought by young people in Oregon, represented by attorneys for Our Children’s Trust, asserting that the federal government’s failure to take effective action against climate change threatened their Fourteenth Amendment rights to life and liberty. Our amicus brief, coauthored by Professor Woodhouse, assisted by Elodie De Bethmann, Emory Law Class of 2020, and by Professors Wyatt Sassman and Sarah Matsumoto, of the University of Denver Environmental Law Clinic, assisted by their students, Rachel Jaffe and Sarah Quigley, was filed March 12, 2020, in support of the plaintiffs petition for rehearing en banc. The amici were three child advocacy organizations, including our own Emory Child Rights Project, and thirteen scholarly experts, including our own Emory Professors Martha Albertson Fineman and Randee Waldman. The brief argued that a sharply divided 9th Circuit panel had erred in dismissing the Juliana complaint as posing a “political question” that could only be resolved through the political process. The brief pointed out that all three judges agreed the minor plaintiffs and their generation have the most at stake in combating climate change yet the majority denied them an effective remedy, despite the fact that minors are excluded by law from voting, lobbying and contributing to political campaigns. The brief claimed that the majority’s dismissal flies in the face of precedents like Brown v. Board of Education and wrongfully closes these young people’s only avenue for vindicating their constitutional rights. The 9th Circuit at this writing has not yet ruled on the petition for en banc rehearing.
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