Coping with Covid is a podcast and video series jointly produced by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School and the American Law Institute examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the legal system. The series is hosted by David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and president of the American Law Institute. Videos of each episode are hosted here; podcast versions of the same programs are hosted on the American Law Institute website.
The Bolch Judicial Institute also is updating a page of resources and helpful links relating to the courts’ response to the coronavirus pandemic; find it here.
8.3.20 | Season 1, Episode 8 | 57:39
Cheri Beasley, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Raymond Lohier, United States Court of Appeals Judge, Second Circuit
Charles Breyer, senior district judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
7.02.20 | Season 1, Episode 7 | 1:01:24
Lori Lightfoot, mayor of Chicago
Art Acevedo, chief of the Houston Police Department
Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at NYU and the founding director of the NYU Policing Project
Ashley Allison, executive vice president of campaigns and programs at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
6.9.20 | Season 1, Episode 6 | 56:10
Kim Askew, partner, DLA Piper
Patrick Casey, senior counsel, Sidley Austin LLP
Anton Hajjar, former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
Cynthia Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at NYU Law School
Samuel Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law, director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, and co-director, Institute of Judicial Administration, at NYU Law School
5.21.20 | Season 1, Episode 5 | 1:20:00
Sherri Carter, Clerk of the Los Angeles Superior Court
Judge Karen Caldwell, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Judge Mark A. Drummond, Judicial Director of the Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law and a retired judge for the 8th Circuit of Illinois
Judge Robin Rosenberg, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida
Judge Sam Thumma, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
Judge Vaughn Walker, mediator, arbitrator, and special discovery master and a retired Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
5.12.20 | Season 1, Episode 4 | 57:58
Ken Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck and Co.
Malini Moorthy, vice president and chief deputy general counsel of Medtronic, Inc.
Ivan Fong, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary for 3M
Kate Adams, general counsel and senior vice president of legal and global security at Apple Inc.
5.1.20 | Season 1, Episode 3 | 1:01:20
Kerry Abrams, the James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the School of Law at Duke University
Vikram Amar, the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law
Heather Gerken, the Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School
John Manning, the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Jenny S. Martinez, the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School
Jennifer Mnookin, the Dean and David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law at UCLA Law
4.23.20 | Season 1, Episode 2 | 57:37
Ronald Flagg, president of the Legal Services Corporation
Lynn Jennings, vice president of the Legal Services Corporation
Raun Rasmussen, executive director of Legal Services NYC
Laura Tuggle, executive director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
Yvonne Mariajimenez, executive director of Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
4.16.20 | Season 1, Episode 1 | 1:02:00
Diane Wood, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago
Lee Rosenthal, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, in Houston
Bridget McCormack, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan, in Lansing
Nathan Hecht, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and president of the Conference of Chief Justices