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   This is the 15 th   in a series of blog posts beginning on February 4, 2020 focused on justice systems’ responses to Covid-19 coronavirus  (SARS-CoV-2 is its technical name)  justice systems’ active participation in what is known as a   whole-of-society-approach   (WOSA) to national security and safety threats such as Covid-19. The information in this post was drawn from recent reports in the  Economist , the  Guardian, Time, the Wall Street Journal , the Washington Pos t, the New York Times, and other news outlets. Views and opinions expressed are the author’s own. Last updated May 27, 2020. (An expanded version of both parts of this post is published in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COURT ADMINISTRATION, Volume 11, Issue 2 (Summer 2020)). Autocratization and Illiberalism: The New Normal? Autocratization is democratic backsliding, a trend toward autocracy, a system of government in which a single person (the autocrat) possesses absolute power to weaken institutions suc

This is the 14 th   in a series of blog posts beginning on February 4, 2020 focused on justice systems’ responses to Covid-19 coronavirus  (SARS-CoV-2 is its technical name)  justice systems’ active participation in what is known as a   whole-of-society-approach   (WOSA) to national security and safety threats such as Covid-19. The information in this post was drawn from recent reports in the  Economist , the  Wall Street Journal ,  the Washington Pos t,  Time , and other news outlets. Views and opinions expressed are the author’s own. Last updated May 22, 2020.  (An expanded version of both parts of this post is published in the  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COURT ADMINISTRATION, Volume 11, Issue 2 (Summer 2020)). In a  Wall Street Journal  essay at the end of April 2020, Joseph A. Ladapo, an associate professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, wrote that the coronavirus pandemic has set the stage for a showdown between civil liberties  and public health (“The Looming Ci