Lindsay F. Wiley

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Lindsay F. Wiley (@ProfLWiley) is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law. She is the author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (2016) and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (2018) (with Lawrence O. Gostin). Her publications on the coronavirus pandemic have appeared in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), Harvard Law Review Forum, and Health Affairs Blog. Her full biography is available at https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/lindsay-wiley.

Lindsay F. Wiley's Articles

COVID-19

COVID-19 Reinforces the Argument for “Regular” Judicial Review—Not Suspension of Civil Liberties—In Times of Crisis

April 9, 2020

Not surprisingly, local and state government orders aimed at mitigating the spread of novel coronavirus have already provoked a series of objections grounded in civil liberties. Just as quickly, courts entertaining challenges to these orders have stumbled into the central (and long-running) normative debate over emergency powers: Should constitutional constraints on government action be suspended…

COVID-19

Why the Supreme Court’s Eviction Moratorium Reasoning Doesn’t Extend to the CDC Transit Mask Order

February 28, 2022

Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the federal public transportation mask mandate, which remains in place on planes, trains, buses, subways, and other public conveyances, as well as at airports and stations. Relying on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Alabama Association of Realtors v. HHS and related…