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🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and a leading Supreme Court advocate, discusses where public health stops and our individual liberties begin. Plus, what does it mean that the Supreme Court has postponed oral arguments?
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0:46.2 | the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. The coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally a public |
0:53.6 | health challenge to us right now. But as we've seen |
0:56.5 | in a series of special episodes that we've been running the last few weeks, that public health |
1:01.2 | challenge has broad interaction with a whole bunch of other serious policy issues. One is the |
1:08.8 | economy, and we've explored that in a recent episode. Another is the law |
1:13.2 | itself, specifically constitutional law, the law that governs the question of where public health |
1:19.7 | stops and your individual liberties begin. That's an issue that's only beginning to emerge as central |
1:26.3 | in our public debate around governmental |
1:28.6 | response to the coronavirus. |
1:30.7 | To talk about this issue, I had a conversation with Professor Richard Lazarus of Harvard Law School. |
1:37.3 | Richard is one of the leading Supreme Court advocates in the country. |
1:40.8 | His area of specialization is environmental and natural resources law. |
1:45.0 | And that makes him truly expert on the question of how expertise in government judgment |
1:51.0 | within government agencies interacts with the power of the federal government and the power of the courts. |
1:58.0 | He's the author of a new book, The Rule of Five, making climate history at the |
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