Ep 066: How One Law School Prepared for Coronavirus Shutdown

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Thursday, March 12, facing the escalating threat of the coronavirus pandemic,</span> <a href= "https://law.byu.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigham Young University Law School</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">made the decision to close down live classes, send students home, and teach the remainder of the semester online. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As it happened, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi was at the law school that day, where he was scheduled to interview the school’s head of infrastructure and technology,</span> <a href= "https://law.byu.edu/faculty/david-l-armond/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David Armond</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, about its</span> <a href= "https://lawcorpus.byu.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">law and corpus linguistics initiative</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But as they sat down to record, Armond had just come from a meeting with the school’s deans and others in which the school had finalized the decision to close down for the remainder of the semester and put its classes online, so he graciously agreed to discuss how the school reached that decision and how it would be implemented. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this brief episode, Armond discussed how a law school prepares to shut down and then executes on that decision. We’ll post the remainder of the interview – the part about law and corpus linguistics – later as a separate episode. </span></p> <p><strong>NEW:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are now on Patreon! Subscribe to</span> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/LawNext"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">our page</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests.</span></