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 the author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History.
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A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion, 'taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating.' -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Tim... SEE MORE