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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19


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Drawing from his new book 'American Contagions' John Fabian Witt (Yale) tells the story of the unexpected past, unwieldy present, and unsettling future of the American law of epidemics.
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John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of many books, including American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 (Yale University Press, 2020).
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