Preface

This book is a first stab at explaining the ways that COVID-19 has thus far affected work law – mostly in the U.S. with a comparative look at few other countries. The book is a work in progress. To that end, feel free to send us comments and suggestions – including what we missed and what we got wrong.

This online collection is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Why read this book

This book is for you if you want to know more about COVID-19’s effect on work law, but don’t have the training, time, or patience to read the law itself or traditional legal commentary. As a result, the contributions are relatively short, but with links to cited primary and secondary sources if you want to dig deeper. The focus is mostly on the United States with a few cross-country comparisons.

Contributors

Elizabeth A. Brown is an Associate Professor, Law and Taxation, at Bentley University.

Michael C. Duff is the Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming.

David Doorey is an Associate Professor of Work Law at York University.

Anthony Forsyth is a Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University.

Jeffrey M. Hirsch is the Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina.

Ann C. Juliano is a Professor of Law at Villanova University

Sachin S. Pandya is a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut.

Elizabeth Pendo is the Joseph J. Simeone Professor of Law at Saint Louis University.

Elizabeth Tippett is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon.

Deborah Widiss is a Professor of Law at Indiana University.

Jamillah Bowman Williams is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

Ruqaiijah Yearby is a Professor of Law at Saint Louis University.

Colophon

This book was built with R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31) and bookdown (Y. Xie 2020).

References

Xie, Yihui. 2020. Bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bookdown.

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