Harvard Law School Project on Disability provides legal support during pandemic

For people with disabilities the COVID-19 pandemic has had particularly pernicious repercussions, from increased exposure to the virus among those living in congregate settings to overtly discriminatory governmental policies, such as Alabama’s policy — now rescinded — to deny people with intellectual disabilities access to ventilators in the event of a shortage.

“The catch line that COVID is the great equalizer is false,” says Michael Ashley Stein ’88, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, known as HPOD, which since 2004 has worked to advance the understanding of disability law, policy, and education around the world. “It’s actually a huge magnifying glass on social inequalities.”

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