Professor Gabriel Scheffler recently co-authored a chapter in the book, COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy, which was recently published by Cambridge University Press. Scheffler, along with Ariel Jurow Kleiman and Andrew Hammond, wrote Chapter 12 on “Legislating a More Responsive Safety Net.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enduring effect across the entire spectrum of law and policy, in areas ranging from health equity and racial justice to constitutional law, the law of prisons, federal benefit programs, election law and much more. The book is a collection of critical reflections on what changes the pandemic has already introduced, and what its legacy may be. Chapters evaluate how healthcare and government institutions have succeeded and failed during this global 'stress test,' and explore how the US and the world will move forward to ensure we are better prepared for future pandemics.
Prior to joining the Miami Law faculty, Scheffler was a Regulation Fellow with the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Research Fellow with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.
Previously, he served as a Staff Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where he worked on health care and labor market policy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College.
