PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW —  The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) held their 2022 Annual Meeting on Freedom, Equality, and the Common Good from January 5-9. This virtual event provided participants with an opportunity to discuss how our legal system should deal with the realities of a post-pandemic world and explored how crafting a common understanding of what freedom means in a democratic society can be very complicated, particularly in the face of a crisis. Further discussion scrutinized how the executive powers used to enact sweeping public health restrictions and actions by employers to mandate vaccines during the pandemic could be interpreted as threats to our freedoms and how a rejection of those restrictions and employer mandates has had some devastating results: the emergence of new virus variants and a new surge of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths that fall disproportionately on the elderly, those of low and moderate income, and on communities of color.