COVID-19 Legal Learning Series CLE
Hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law and The Jerome Mirza Foundation
"Government Responses to Coronavirus: Constitutional Issues"
Presenter:
Jason Mazzone
Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law
Director, Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law
University of Illinois College of Law
June 4, 2020
Noon-1 p.m. (CST)
This session will examine some of the key constitutional issues raised by government responses to the Coronavirus pandemic. Among the topics covered: how constitutional allocations of governmental power (between the federal government and the states and among the branches of the federal government) shape and limit response efforts; implications of stay-at-home orders and other restrictions for individual rights, including religious freedom, association, and travel; how courts around the country have handled lawsuits challenging response measures; and issues that lie ahead, including some related to holding elections in November.
Jason Mazzone is the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Illinois Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law. Professor Mazzone’s primary field of research and teaching is constitutional law and history. He works principally on issues of constitutional structure and institutional design with a particular focus on relationships between structural arrangements and individual rights. Professor Mazzone is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the European Law Institute. He is Chair of the Illinois-Bologna Conference on Comparative Constitutional History, a member of the Advisory Board of the Italian Law Journal, and a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Constitutionalism in Illiberal Democracies. His scholarship has been cited by many courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a regular media commentator and he has written about legal issues for The New York Times and other national newspapers. Professor Mazzone received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Stanford University, and a master’s and doctorate from Yale University. Before entering law teaching, Professor Mazzone clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Judge John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and he practiced intellectual property law in New York City.
Course Materials linked HERE.
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11. (1905)
Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U.S. __ (2020) (per curiam)
Maryville Baptist Church v. Beshear, __ F.3d__ (6th Cir. 2020)
Vikram David Amar & Jason Mazzone, “Linking COVID-19 Relief for State Governments to Abandonment of ‘Sanctuary’ Policies? The Uncharted Territory of Conditional Spending,” Justia, May 13, 2020, https://verdict.justia.com/2020/05/13/linking-covid-19-relief-for-state-governments-to-abandonment-of-sanctuary-policies
This course has been approved for 1.00 hour of Illinois MCLE general credit. (Certificates will be issued by email following the course.)
Free but registration requested.
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