Letters and Politics

How Pandemics Have Shaped The Law

Guest: John Fabian Witt is the Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and History at Yale, where he serves as Head of Davenport College. He is author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Lincoln’s CodeThe Laws of War in American History, his latest book is American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19.