EP #444 - 3.2.2022 - COVID and the Law Update w/Kathleen Bergin

Today I welcome disaster law expert Kathleen Bergin back to COVIDCalls.

My guest today is Professor Kathy Bergin.  Kathy is a recognized expert in Disaster Law, she presently teaches at Cornell University Law School—her research extends to humanitarian aid programs and the catastrophic impact of climate change. She has been crucial in promoting Disaster Law as an academic discipline. She is also a successful advocate. Her team in Haiti established binding precedent in a proceeding before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that reinforced post-disaster human rights obligations. Her work on mass evacuation shelters after Hurricane Katrina is used across the humanitarian sector as a blue-print for protecting displaced survivors. She is on the steering committee for Project Blueprint, a policy advocacy organization aimed at promoting a progressive US foreign policy.