Mar 22, 2023
Red Sox Seek ‘Boston’ Trademark To Control City Name in Sports Sales

Professor Alexandra J. Roberts explains the legal hurdles of MLB teams' trademark applications for the names of cities, "[The Red Sox’ application is] likely to be met with a failure to function refusal, because the specimens submitted show only ornamental use of ‘Boston,’ not use as a source indicator,” in Sportico.
Mar 21, 2023
New FTC Order Pressures Tech Platforms Over Fraudulent Ads

Professor Alexandra J. Roberts comments on a new Federal Trade Commission order compelling social media and video streaming providers to curb fraudulent advertising. “I think we’ll find that there’s plenty of room for improvement by all of these platforms,” said Roberts in The Wall Street Journal.
Mar 19, 2023
A Boneless-Wing Lawsuit Ruffles Feathers of Chicken Devotees

“I think the plaintiff here is right when we’re talking about ingredients or quality or we’re talking about light meat versus dark meat,” said Professor Alexandra Roberts in The Wall Street Journal on a boneless-wing lawsuit that accuses Buffalo Wild Wings of false advertising, “That might be something that’s really important to a consumer who’s purchasing something in a category of wings or nuggets or whatever it is.”
Mar 16, 2023
Podcast: Utilitarianism, the Trolly Problem and Zombies in the Season 1 Finale of the Last of Us

Professor Alexandra (Xander) Meise was a guest commentator on the Salaam Nerds podcast to discuss utilitarianism, the Trolly problem, zombies and issues of ethics in the Season 1 finale of the critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic TV series "The Last of Us."
Mar 06, 2023
More Big Brands Brave the Rocky Terrain of Endorsement Deals With College Athletes

“They’re not Kardashians and Jenners who have been doing this for a long time and who have their own legal team advising them,” said Professor Alexandra J. Roberts on the Wall Street Journal about brands that strike endorsement deals with college students.
Feb 28, 2023
Chicago Is Seeing an Increase in Fatal Meth Overdoses. Here’s Why.

“It doesn’t seem like there’s a sense of urgency with this,” Professor Leo Beletsky says in the Chicago Sun Times about the ongoing Adderall shortage that is likely to lead people to alternative stimulants, “It seems like we really haven’t learned our lesson from the opioid story.”
Feb 28, 2023
FTC Bags First Settlement in Probe of ‘Review Hijacking’ in E-commerce

"One strategy the FTC employs is to make an example of one of several bad actors in the hopes that others will fall in line and adjust approaches,” Professor Alexandra J. Roberts adds in Law.com about a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe of 'review hijacking' in e-commerce.
Feb 21, 2023
It’s Just Another Marketing Scheme. ‘De-influencers’ Tell You What To Buy by Telling You What Not To Buy

“I think more cynically, we can think of it in some cases as just another form of influencer marketing,” says Professor Alexandra J. Roberts in Northeastern Global News on "de-influencing," which urges followers to think twice about impulse-purchasing certain cult-favorite products.
Feb 10, 2023
A Troubled Mother Faces Murder Charges in Her Young Children’s Deaths

“If I were the D.A., I would be reticent to charge this as murder — it feels misaligned with our current understanding of mental health, and misaligned with the public reaction,” said Professor Daniel Medwed in The New York Times.
Jan 19, 2023
Legal Experts Say a Suspect Can Be Charged With Murder Without a Body but the Case Is Tough To Prosecute

“These ‘no body’ cases are challenging in part because of an ancient legal concept known as ‘corpus delicti,’ which posits that the government needs to prove that a crime has occurred before charging anyone with it," Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. "Compelling circumstantial evidence can still yield a conviction in such a case."
Jan 11, 2023
Forensic Genealogy Starred in Apprehension of Idaho Murder Suspect—but Was It Necessary?

Using DNA to solve crimes “is especially effective in cases where it’s very easy to tie the profile to the crime, like a single perpetrator sexual assault,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells Northeastern Global News. “When it comes to forensic genealogy, people also have to remember that not everybody is in the genealogical research pool.”
Jan 09, 2023
What Happens When State and Local Laws Conflict

Professor Martha Davis wrote an op-ed for the Brennan Center for Justice Center analyzing three recent cases involving abortion, gun control and public health, where state preemption principles played a key role.
Jan 05, 2023
Now Available in Paperback! Professor Martha Davis’ Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

The book explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades.
Jan 05, 2023
Maura Healey ’98 To Be Sworn in as Massachusetts’ 73rd Governor on Historic Inauguration Day

Congratulations to Maura Healey ’98, who will be sworn in today as Massachusetts’ 73rd governor! Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 will administer the oath of office at the swearing-in ceremony which starts at noon.

2022 Dec 30, 2022
Northeastern Law Grads and Affiliates Play Key Roles in Mass. Leadership Transition Teams

As Massachusetts prepares for leadership changes in 2023, Northeastern Law graduates and affiliates are laying the groundwork for the exciting transitions to come.
Dec 30, 2022
They Were Freed After Serving Decades in Prison. Now, It’s Their Prosecutors Who Are Facing Scrutiny.

“There’s a sense of resignation in the defense bar that prosecutors are often above the law and they won’t be held accountable,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. “It’s not just Massachusetts. It’s really every state.”
Dec 27, 2022
2022 Was a Historic Year for Climate Change Policies. What’s Next for 2023?

“If I had to pick one event or point of progress to look at in 2022, that would be the Inflation Reduction Act and the $369 billion in climate change-related investments that are going to stem from that,” says Professor Alexandra Meise.
Dec 19, 2022
Zinaida Miller Joins Northeastern as Professor of Law and International Affairs

Zinaida Miller, a leading authority on transitional justice, human rights and humanitarianism, focusing on the reproduction of inequality and structural violence in areas including South Africa, Rwanda, Palestine and the US, will join the Northeastern University faculty on January 1, 2023, as professor of law and international affairs, with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the International Affairs Program of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Dec 15, 2022
Grief and Contemplation. At Site of Sandy Hook Shooting on 10th Anniversary, Northeastern Experts Reflect

On the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, the memorial site offers visitors the chance to contemplate and reflect, says Sarah Peck ’96, director of PHAI’s UnitedOnGuns initiative.
Dec 13, 2022
Sebastien Philemon ’24 Awarded Ropes & Gray Diversity Scholarship

Sebastien Philemon ’24 has been selected as the first Northeastern Law student to be awarded the prestigious Roscoe Trimmier Jr. Diversity Scholarship by Ropes & Gray.
Dec 12, 2022
Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941

An investigation by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) has led to an official status change in the death record of Private Albert King, one of dozens of Black service members believed to have been killed on or near US bases because of their race. “Removing the taint is an important dynamic for the whole country, not just for the families, but for the understanding of this particular history,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ, tells The New York Times.
Dec 09, 2022
We Need Punitive Damage Awards to Protect Public Health

”Punitive-damage awards in public-health cases are a way to change bad corporate conduct,” writes Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, in an op-ed for The Hill. ”They don’t tear down our society, they make it better.”
Nov 30, 2022
The U.S. Prison System Doesn't Value True Justice

“Technicalities are often what keep the actually innocent behind bars,” writes Professor Daniel Medwed in a piece for TIME magazine. “The system exalts finality over accuracy, the appearance of justice over genuine justice.”
Nov 29, 2022
The Rise of Human Rights Cities

Where do universal human rights begin? Professor Martha Davis joined the Carr Center’s Justice Matters podcast, to speak about local movements and human rights cities.
Nov 23, 2022
Twitter Blue Checks Raise Trademark Risk After Fake Lilly Fiasco

Succeeding in trademark suits against the individuals behind Twitter spoof accounts is “not out of the question,” Professor Alexandra Roberts tells Bloomberg Law.
Nov 22, 2022
After the Midterms, Don’t Expect Democrats and Republicans to Work Together, Northeastern Panelists Suggest

Professor Jeremy Paul recently joined a panel of Northeastern experts to share reflections on the 2022 midterm elections, the forces that affected the results and what the outcomes meant for America going forward. “President Biden has already appointed more judges in his first two years than any president since John Kennedy, including Ketanji Brown Jackson,” he said. “It’s a huge thing that the Democrats continue to control the Senate in case there were to be another Supreme Court vacancy.”
Nov 22, 2022
Athletes Likely Off the Hook In FTX Mess, But No Guarantee

Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and social media, weighs in on the class action lawsuit against FTX founder and his celebrity backers.
Nov 19, 2022
What LGBTQ Fans Visiting Qatar for the World Cup Can Expect, and What Soccer Lovers Around the Globe Need To Know

”Investment and choices of where to spend money is a reflection of values,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells News@Northeastern . “That also extends internationally.”
Nov 17, 2022
Professor Martha Davis Named a Fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Professor Martha Davis, an internationally recognized expert on human rights, has been appointed as a 2022-2023 fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Nov 17, 2022
Northeastern Professor’s New Novel Explores Civil Rights-Era Cold Case

“Many of the characters in this book emerged from what I know of a decades-long work in the Civil Rights Movement,” says Professor Michael Meltsner, author of Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?, who will be in conversation with fellow-author Professor Daniel Medwed at the Cambridge Public Library tonight at 6PM.
Nov 15, 2022
Northeastern Law Ranked No. 10 for Racial Justice

In recognition of its national leadership in preparing the next generation of attorneys who are ready to tackle racial injustice, Northeastern University School of Law has been ranked No. 10 for racial justice in the fall 2022 issue of preLaw magazine.
Nov 13, 2022
The Global Economics Behind America's Fentanyl Problem

“The current fentanyl situation is really a product of misguided drug policy and its enforcement,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Quartz.
Nov 11, 2022
Ambassador Melanne Verveer Confirmed as Special Presenter at Brown Forum | Women in the Law Conference

Melanne Verveer, director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security and former US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, will deliver a special presentation at Northeastern Law’s 15th annual Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law Conference on May 5, 2023.
Nov 08, 2022
Heading to the Polls? Be Prepared for Disruptions, Long Lines, Experts Say

Given the current political climate, Professor Blaine Saito, who is working the polls today in Boston, tells News@Northeastern he anticipates more challenges to voter qualification.
Nov 02, 2022
Northeastern Law Receives AALS Award for LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence

Northeastern University School of Law is the recipient of the 2022 LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Institutional Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues (SOGII). This award recognizes innovative contributions to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in the legal academy and the legal profession more broadly. 
Oct 31, 2022
Guilty Before Innocent: How the Courts Keep the Wrongfully Convicted From Proving Their Innocence.

”[Professor Daniel] Medwed’s excellent book—aimed at the general audience rather than the specialist—is a model of clarity and persuasiveness,” writes Judge Jed Rakoff in a review for The Nation.
Oct 27, 2022
America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People

”Just as with opioids, we are in the middle of a spiraling crisis involving stimulants,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Wired.
Oct 25, 2022
Boston Officials Visit Jail as They Seek Options to House People at ’Mass. And Cass’

“Massachusetts already has one of the most highly utilized involuntary commitment systems in the entire country,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells WBUR. “Thousands of people are involuntarily committed every year and those people by and large are worse off when they come out than when they went in.”
Oct 24, 2022
Experts: George Floyd Died From Knee to Neck, Not Drug Overdose

“The physical responses that [George Floyd] was having were much more consistent with trauma than an overdose,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells the Associated Press.
Oct 21, 2022
Why Immigration Reform Has Been So Elusive Over the Years

”The harm of not being able to pass immigration reform is we’re losing out on really good people,” Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, tells the Cape Cod Times.
Oct 21, 2022
Gerrymandering Case Headed to Supreme Court Could ‘Destroy American Democracy,’ Northeastern Professors Say

A ruling in favor of the independent state legislature doctrine would have a lasting impact, ensuring one-party rule and rendering elections “virtually meaningless,” according to Professors Michael Meltsner, Jeremy Paul and Dan Urman.
Oct 17, 2022
Q&A with Margaret Burnham, "By Hands Now Known”

Watch video: On C-SPAN’s Q&A series, Professor Margaret Burnham, author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, talks about the largely unknown Black victims of racial violence in the South between the early to mid-twentieth century.
Oct 07, 2022
Civil Rights Attorney Vies to Pick up the Torch of Reform Prosecutors in Massachusetts

“I see it as my responsibility and duty to be, for lack of a better phrase, the voice crying out in the wilderness saying that there is another way,” Rahsaan Hall ’98, a candidate for Plymouth County District Attorney, tells Bolts magazine.
Oct 07, 2022
New Art Installation From Frontline and Northeastern Humanizes Those Lost in Racial Violence Cold Cases

An innovative, traveling art installation was unveiled at Northeastern’s Cabot Court on October 6, 2022. The project, a partnership between Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and PBS Frontline’s Un(re)solved initiative, uses augmented reality, African American quilt traditions and investigative reporting to bridge the gap between the past and present.
Sep 30, 2022
Towns Are Going After Syringe Services. The A.D.A. May Be Their Best Defense.

“The fight against zoning laws represents a larger fight against stigma directed towards people who use drugs,” writes Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, in a co-authored op-ed for Harvard Public Health.
Sep 29, 2022
Adnan Syed’s Accidental Justice His Exoneration Shows the Legal System Is Designed to Cement Wrongful Convictions, Not Correct Them

New York magazine cites Professor Daniel Medwed’s new book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out Of Prison: ”The system values finality and efficiency over accuracy. It’s about power and control. It’s about the ways in which those at the top keep those at the bottom from moving up.”
Sep 29, 2022
Tweaks to Bill | Vaccine Mandate Update

The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
Sep 29, 2022
Betty Francisco ’98 Honored by the Boston Business Journal

Congratulations to Betty Francisco ’98, CEO at Boston Impact Initiative, who has been named to the Boston Business Journal’s Power 50: Movement Makers for 2022, an annual list of Boston-area business people who are making the most impact on the region. #NUSLPride l
Sep 27, 2022
1,000 Racial Homicides Investigated in Unprecedented Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive

Today, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law released the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, one of the most comprehensive digital archives of racial homicides collected to date.
Sep 26, 2022
Introducing Joshua Nadreau ’13, President of the Alumni/ae Association’s Board of Directors

The School of Law is pleased to welcome Joshua Nadreau ’13, partner at Fisher Phillips in Boston, as board president of the Alumni/ae Association for 2022-2023. Building on the board’s robust network, Nadreau will take the lead in broadening the law school's connection with its graduate community in Boston and throughout the country.
Sep 21, 2022
So You Want to Run for Office? A Conversation With MA State Representative Tram Nguyen

On the Coffee Break Campaigning podcast, Tram Nguyen ’13, state representative for the 18th Essex District, Massachusetts, delves into her experience running for office and the basics of running a campaign.
Sep 20, 2022
Professor Margaret Burnham’s New Book, By Hands Now Known, Challenges Our Understanding of the Jim Crow Era

In her new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, Professor Margaret Burnham examines the true scope and nature of Jim Crow-era violence, the laws that condoned it, and their legacy today.
Sep 20, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed’s New Book Provides Groundbreaking Exposé On Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison

In his new book, BARRED: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison, Professor Daniel Medwed reveals how convoluted legal procedures — essentially technicalities —make exonerations nearly impossible.
Sep 18, 2022
Northeastern To Install Emergency Contraception Vending Machine, Students Hope for More Action

Ruchi Ramamurthy JD/MPH ’24 and Julia Winett ’23 talk to The Huntington News about their on-campus advocacy and the work they are doing to help ensure student access to reproductive health care.
Sep 16, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed's Forthcoming Book, BARRED, is Named to Bloomberg’s Best Fall Books List

Professor Daniel Medwed's forthcoming book, BARRED: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison , has been included in Bloomberg's list of The 10 Best Books to Read This Fall!🍂 #NUSLPride
Sep 15, 2022
CPIAC Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project Awarded Northeastern Impact Engine Grant

Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration’s (CPIAC) flagship research initiative, the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project (C2P Project), has been awarded a Northeastern Impact Engine Grant to expand its work supporting advocates dedicated to dismantling the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
Sep 15, 2022
Why Federal Prosecutors May Be Pressed for Time in the Mar-a-Lago Investigation, Even During ‘Very Early Stages’

Professor Daniel Medwed speaks with News@Northeastern about the latest developments in the Department of Justice’s probe into Trump—and where the case could be headed next.
Sep 15, 2022
Northeastern Law Announces 10 New Faculty Fellowships

In support of its public interest mission, Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce that its Centers of Excellence have selected 10 outstanding faculty members as 2022-2023 Faculty Fellows.
Sep 14, 2022
Professor Mark Gottlieb Discusses Recent Juul Settlement on NBC News Now

Mark Gottlieb '93, executive director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells NBC News Now “there’s quite a reckoning still to come,” for E-cigarette maker Juul Labs. The company has agreed to pay $438.5 million in a settlement with 33 states and one territory over marketing its product to teens.
Sep 09, 2022
Professor Margaret Burnham Named Finalist for Prestigious Kirkus Prize

Professor Margaret Burnham's new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, has been named a finalist in the nonfiction category for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards!
Sep 09, 2022
Biden’s Omicron Booster Campaign Faces Fatigue, Efficacy Doubts

“It would be an extraordinary failure of public policy for Congress not to reauthorize funding to extend government supported access to vaccines, boosters, tests, and therapeutics,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law.
Sep 08, 2022
Trump Investigation: Where Do Things Stand and What Happens Next?

“[Judge Aileen Cannon] is leaning over backwards to treat Trump the way nobody else has been treated,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells Al Jazeera. “In US law and practice, we don’t interfere lightly with a criminal investigation. A criminal investigation by its very nature has to be private.”
Sep 08, 2022
Maura Healey ’98 Wins Democratic Primary for Governor

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey ’98 swept to an expected victory in the Democratic Party’s primary election in September for Massachusetts governor. Healey is best known for leading efforts to hold accountable ExxonMobil, predatory student lenders, and Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers. Should she win the general election in November, she would make history as the first openly gay woman governor in the United States.
Sep 02, 2022
Northeastern Law Grad’s DA Campaign Aims To Reclaim the ‘Spirit of Justice’

“The emphasis around the way to use the law as a tool for social progress is something that is a part of the ethos of Northeastern’s law school and that permeates through the careers of many of its alumni,” Rahsaan Hall ’98 tells News@Northeastern. “And so I hope to count myself in that tradition of public servants who bring honor to our alma mater.”
Sep 01, 2022
Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and Criminal Justice Task Force Announce Victories in the Fight for Justice

Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race and Criminal Justice Task Force are pleased to announce three major victories in their fight for systemic changes to make our criminal and civil justice systems fairer and more just.
Aug 22, 2022
Amber Kolb ’23 Awarded First Place in Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest

Amber Kolb ’23 has taken first place in the 2022 Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest. This highly competitive award is sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Family Law to promote interest and scholarship in family law.
Aug 22, 2022
‘No Grounds’ To Unseal Affidavit Justifying Raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence, Northeastern Law Professor Says

“The release of an entirely unredacted affidavit would set a dangerous precedent,” says Professor Michael Meltsner.
Aug 19, 2022
Know Better, Do Better: 2022 U.S. CERD Review

“The six days that we spent at the United Nations were transformative, illuminating and empowering,” writes Jennifer Wakefield ’23, a current PHRGE co-op student who recently attended the U.S. CERD Review in Geneva alongside Professor Martha Davis.
Aug 17, 2022
Julia Gaffney ’23 Takes Third Place in Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest

Julia Gaffney ’23 has placed third in the 2022 Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest. This highly competitive award is sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Family Law to promote interest and scholarship in family law.
Aug 16, 2022
Can the Catholic Church Claim Immunity From Abuse Lawsuits Because it is a Charity?

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, provides a summary of the key Supreme Judicial Court decisions that been issued over the summer.
Aug 15, 2022
On Campaign Trail, an Easy Layup for Maura Healey, Who Faces No Active Democratic Opponent

Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 will be traveling the state (and hitting the court!) over the next few months as she campaigns to be the next governor of Massachusetts. Check out The Boston Globe’s coverage of her recent visit to Lawrence.
Aug 11, 2022
Annemarie Guare ’22 to Receive NLG Student Award

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Massachusetts Chapter will present Annemarie Guare ’22 with a student award at its annual testimonial dinner on Friday, October 7, 2022. Professor Margaret Burnham, director of the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, will serve as one of the masters of ceremony for the event.
Aug 10, 2022
The Outsized, Critical Role of a Mayor After a Mass Shooting

In an op-ed for Governing, Sarah Peck ’96, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, honors El Paso Mayor Dee Margo and highlights the critical communications role mayors play when responding to a mass shooting.
Aug 10, 2022
Northeastern Professor Scores Legal Win in Holding Prosecutors Accountable

Professor Daniel Medwed is one of six law experts who, as part of a project called “Accountability New York,” published more than 20 complaints of misconduct against district attorneys in Queens.
Aug 03, 2022
Northeastern Law Magazine: Summer 2022 Issue

“Shooting Pains,” “Rethinking Business As Usual,” “Active Duty” and many more stories await readers in the summer 2022 issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Read it online now!
Aug 02, 2022
Why the Kansas Ballot Question on Abortion Matters

“For those concerned about preserving reproductive justice, targeting state-level reform will reap rewards,” writes Professor Daniel Medwed in a co-authored opinion piece for CommonWealth magazine.
Aug 01, 2022
Massachusetts Should Require Gun Liability Insurance

In a co-authored op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Deborah Ramirez, Jacqueline Bohatch ’24 and Anna Olsson ’24 makes the case for mandatory gun liability insurance and explains how it would help keep firearms out of the wrong hands.
Jul 24, 2022
After 51 Years in Prison, Ramadan Shabazz Deserves his Freedom

“I really believe that clemency is so important and plays such an important role in our system,” says Mia Teitelbaum ’15, a partner at Shapiro and Teitelbaum and attorney for Ramadan Shabaz, who is petitioning the Parole Board to reduce his charge from first-degree murder to second-degree murder.
Jul 22, 2022
Court Win Bolsters Push to Highlight Prosecutors’ Misconduct

Professor Daniel Medwed tells The New York Times that the introduction of more conservative crime control elements could result in renewed pressure on prosecutors to win convictions and “that’s all the more reason for there to be greater transparency and greater accountability.” Medwed is one of a group of six law professors who have tried to strengthen the disciplinary process for prosecuting attorneys by making complaints public.
Jul 22, 2022
Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Ban Tests FDA Limits on Pill Access

“We are at the first stage of a tsunami of litigation,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law as Georgia's abortion law adds to an ongoing fight over the boundaries between states and the federal government.
Jul 21, 2022
As a Female Trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell Is Not an Aberration

Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, doesn’t buy the idea that Ghislaine Maxwell served in court as a proxy for prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein. “He would not be able to do what he did without her," she tells News@Northeastern.
Jul 20, 2022
Pharma and Patient Advocates Offer Competing Visions for Achieving Vaccine Equity During Pandemics

“Big Pharma’s unwillingness to acknowledge that the existing IP regime did not just enable innovation — it also produced artificially restricted supplies, price profiteering, and grossly inequitable distribution first of vaccines and tests and now of Covid medicines as well,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
Jul 20, 2022
Statement by Energy Secretary Granholm on The Confirmation of Shalanda Baker

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has issued a statement following the U.S. Senate bipartisan confirmation of Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 to serve as director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): “There is no more effective champion for building an equitable, just, clean energy economy than Shalanda. We are thrilled that she is willing to serve the American people and we are incredibly fortunate to have her in the DOE family.”
Jul 20, 2022
After Mall Shooting, Yet Another Mayor Becomes a Member of the Club No One Wants To Join

“Mayors play an outsized role in a city’s response to a mass shooting. Yet, city leaders rarely think about their role, let alone prepare for it, until the unimaginable happens,” writes Sarah Peck ’96, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, in an op-ed for The Hill. “That’s why my colleagues and I researched six cities that have responded to a mass shooting.”
Jul 15, 2022
PHRGE Submits Shadow Reports to UN Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has submitted two shadow reports to the UN Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which will be reviewing U.S. compliance with the Race Convention in August.
Jul 15, 2022
Northeastern Law and History Design Interactive Map for UN to Ensure Indigenous Religious Rights

Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) and NuLawLab has collaborated with the Northeastern History Department to design a unique resource for the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief: an interactive map of indigenous religious rights worldwide.
Jul 13, 2022
'Whose God Wins?’ Florida Lawsuit Exposes Supreme Court’s Religious Hypocrisy, Northeastern Professors Say

“Since Roberts became chief justice, almost all of the decisions are issued on behalf of Catholics or Evangelicals,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells News@Northeastern.
Jul 12, 2022
Report Details Women’s Accounts of Sexual Misconduct by Staff in Massachusetts Prisons and Jails

As an Equal Justice Works fellow working with Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts (PLS), Sarah Nawab ’20 authored ”A Different Way Forward." The new report details the traumatic experiences of incarcerated women throughout the Commonwealth and makes five recommendations to remedy harm caused by the carceral system.
Jul 11, 2022
Will Biden and Democrats Be Able To Protect Abortion Rights Through Legislation?

“The executive order is [Biden’s] attempt to send a message to the country that whatever he can do, whatever steps he can take, in order to preserve access to abortion, he will take them,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells News@Northeastern.
Jul 08, 2022
Northeastern Immigration Expert Says Supreme Court’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Ruling Way Too Close

The Supreme Court ruled to allow President Joe Biden to end the Trump-era immigration policy, but Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, says the 5-to-4 ruling was too close for comfort.
Jul 08, 2022
How Would Donald Trump Fare in a Jury Trial? Why an Indictment Against the Former President Is More Than Likely

“It is clear that there is enough evidence to indict and convict the former president of conspiracy to defraud the United States, illegally interfere with the electoral count and even sedition,” says Professor Michael Meltsner.
Jul 07, 2022
Karl Klare: The Person Who Helped Us See the Tree for the Wood

The Honorable Albie Sachs, retired justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, has penned a special tribute to Professor Karl Klare: "It was he who introduced the term transformative constitutionalism into South African discourse."
Jul 07, 2022
Fifty Years On, Title IX’s Legacy Includes Its Durability

Professor Libby Adler tells The New York Times that Title IX could be open to interpretation on the issue of transgender athletes and other classes not explicitly defined in the language: “It’s that elasticity or indeterminacy that makes it unlikely to be struck down, but much more likely to be interpreted in ways that are consistent with the politics of the judges we have.”
Jul 06, 2022
Northeastern Professors Study Mental and Physical Health of Teen Sex Trafficking Victims

“We have to expand how we define harm to include preying on vulnerable individuals,” Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells News@Northeastern. “We’re just coming to terms as a society with how prevalent sexual violence, trafficking and domestic violence are a real thing.”
Jul 06, 2022
Is the Supreme Court Doing Away With the Separation of Church and State?

Two recent high court decisions threaten to tear down the so-called “wall of separation” between church and state, says Professor Claudia Haupt.
Jul 05, 2022
Will the FDA’s Proposed Nicotine Regulation Spell the End for Smoking in the US?

Professor Dick Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, predicts the tobacco industry will fight tooth and nail at every step of the process to stop the FDA from passing a proposed regulation to create a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Jul 04, 2022
‘Not All Is Lost’ in Climate Change Fight After Supreme Court Limits EPA’s Regulatory Power

”Coming out of [Thursday’s ruling], it will be harder to enact certain broad types of measures that affect how America gets its energy and the energy markets more broadly,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells News@Northeastern. ”But that doesn’t mean we can’t take smaller steps to still advance toward that goal....What’s most important is that we continue to act to reduce our emissions outputs. There is zero time to be idle.”
Jul 04, 2022
‘A Slippery Slope’: Pfizer Sells a Contraceptive and Donated To Political Groups That Could Come After the Company

”This decision has opened up uncertainty and could well mean that companies have shot themselves in the foot,“ Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells STAT.
Jul 01, 2022
Northeastern Professor Says, ‘In the End, Roe and Casey Will Be Reaffirmed'

Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul tell News@Northeastern the anti-abortion cause, despite its institutional foothold on the Supreme Court, will diminish in strength given time—and that reproductive rights will, in a long drawn-out political and legal struggle, win out.
Jul 01, 2022
Understanding the Supreme Court EPA Greenhouse Gas Ruling

Watch: In a live interview with NBC Boston, Professor Alexandra Meise explains some of the broader implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling curbing the federal government’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Jun 30, 2022
Professor Medwed and Team of Professors Prevail on Publishing Prosecutor Misconduct Cases

Professor Daniel Medwed, a criminal law expert, and a team of five other law professors have prevailed in a federal court ruling that vindicated crucial First Amendment rights and upheld the use of holding prosecutors accountable for misconduct through publishing disciplinary complaints against them.
Jun 29, 2022
What Else is “Egregiously Wrong”?

In her latest piece for the Human Rights at Home Blog, Professor Martha Davis addresses Justice Alito’s dismissal of an equal protection challenge to abortion restrictions.
Jun 28, 2022
Legal Face-Off With Professor Gundavaram

Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law's Immigrant Justice Clinic, joined WGN Radio's Legal Face-Off podcast, to discuss recent and upcoming Supreme Court immigration rulings.
Jun 27, 2022
How to Prevent Cops from Killing: Weaken Unions and Make Police Pay for Misconduct

“Even if chiefs see an officer using excessive force or know that an officer has repeated complaints filed against them, it's difficult for the chief to discipline them because the union-controlled arbitration process overturns the verdict," Professor Deborah Ramirez, an advocate for a professional liability insurance system for police offers, tells USA TODAY.
Jun 26, 2022
Chasm Opens Between States Over Abortion Pills and Out-of-State Care

“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”
Jun 25, 2022
Garland Signals Brewing Battle With GOP-Led States Over Access to Abortion Pills

Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News it’s unclear whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition on mifepristone: “We don’t have a Supreme Court decision on [this] point, and even if we did, we have a Supreme Court willing to overturn decisions.”
Jun 25, 2022
Roe Reversal, Ending National Access to Abortion, Makes US an Outlier Among Developed Nations

Professor Martha Davis tells PolitiFact that the lack of uniformity in abortion laws sets the U.S. apart from other countries: “Most developed countries have a national standard for access to abortion or consistency across subnational entities rather than wide variations in laws amongst states.”
Jun 23, 2022
Law Profs Prevail Over Backlash To Publishing Prosecutor Misconduct Cases

Professor Daniel Medwed was among a group of six law professors who signed on to a federal lawsuit to push for more accountability when prosecutors are found to have committed prosecutorial misconduct.
Jun 15, 2022
Maura Healey Could Be the Next Governor. Her Ties to Mass. Begin With a Surprising Backstory

”I'm really proud of my progressive record as attorney general and as a civil rights leader,” says Mass. AG Maura Healey '98. "Of standing up on racial justice, on social justice, on reproductive justice, on environmental justice, on criminal justice reform.”
Jun 14, 2022
Time to Walk Away from the WTO Proposed Text

”The hegemony of Big Pharma itself must be challenged,” writes Professor Brook Baker in his latest Health GAP blog. ”How much pandemic profiteering can we collectively endure?”
Jun 14, 2022
CLEAR Announces Summer Cohort of Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellows

Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) is pleased to announce the second set of recipients of the Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellowship: Ari Appel ’24; Maya Leggat ’23; Valerie Orellana ’24; and Owen Woo ’24.
Jun 13, 2022
As Biden Administration Fights Opioid Overdoses, Harm Reduction Groups Face Opposition

“These [harm reduction] programs are still running on a shoestring,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells USA Today “That is not how public health is supposed to be done.”
Jun 13, 2022
Baker Confirmed to Head Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at DOE

Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Jun 09, 2022
How Retiring Northeastern Law Professor James Rowan Found Salvation in Clinical Work

After a 42-year career, our beloved Professor James Rowan is retiring from Northeastern Law, where he taught and mentored thousands of students as director of clinical programs and director of the Poverty Law and Practice Clinic.
Jun 09, 2022
The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America

“There’s a huge movement all across the country to look at historical wrongs, including forced sterilization, and to consider what needs to be done now in order to redress them,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, tells The New York Times Magazine. “I think this is really the question of the 21st century.”
Jun 03, 2022
Laws Removing Officers’ Immunity Remain Limited to a Few States

“I think people are looking to Colorado to see how it plays out and whether it should be part of the criminal justice reform agenda,” Professor Deborah Ramirez, faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) tells Business Insurance.
Jun 03, 2022
Opponents of Undocumented Driver’s License Bill Point To Potential for Illegal Voting. How Legitimate Are Those Concerns?

On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a new bill recently passed by the Massachusetts Legislature that would allow unauthorized immigrants to secure driver's licenses and some of the controversy surrounding it.
Jun 03, 2022
Maura Healey Could Be the Nation’s First Openly Lesbian Governor. Here’s How Her Identity Has Shaped Her.

Fellow Northeastern Law grads Mary Bonauto ’87 and Elyse Cherry ’83 are quoted in this Boston Globe profile of Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98, who is running for governor of Massachusetts.
Jun 01, 2022
Bonauto Presented with Muskie Award

Mary Bonauto ’87, who has worked tirelessly to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender, including arguing successfully for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, has been honored with the Muskie Access to Justice Award by the Muskie Fund for Legal Services, a nonprofit fund that supports the direct provision of legal services to low-income and needy elderly Maine residents.
May 31, 2022
How the Johnny Depp Case Took Over the Internet, and What This Could Mean for Victims of Domestic Violence

“The court of public opinion siding so heavily in Depp’s favor may be a signal of more than just the way viewers understand the evidence, or Depp’s celebrity,” says Professor Margo Lindauer, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute. “It could also signal underlying misogyny.”
May 30, 2022
More Collar Counties Charge Dealers With Drug-induced Homicide for Drug Overdose Deaths

"If you are responding to overdoses with drug induced homicide prosecutions, you're part of the problem, you're not part of the solution," Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells ABC 7 Chicago.
May 27, 2022
D.C. Circuit Could Finally Fix IRS Whistleblower Program

“The IRS whistleblower program’s success in detecting and deterring tax crimes has been undermined by a recent US Tax Court decision concerning the appropriate standard of review for analyzing decisions made by the IRS Whistleblower Office,” writes Siri Nelson ’19, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and an adjunct professor at Northeastern Law, in a co-authored op-ed for Bloomberg Tax.
May 25, 2022
Two Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Has Anything Changed in Policing?

Katie Sandson, an attorney at Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, tells News@Northeastern that there has been some progress toward reparations in the last two years, but it is not enough.
May 25, 2022
Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins Tells LAW Grads, This Is “the Fight of Our Lives”

Rachael Rollins ’97, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, was the convocation speaker at Boston University School of Law’s graduation ceremony last weekend. “Don’t be afraid to fail,” she told the class of 2022. “Get in the game—even when people say you can’t and shouldn’t.”
May 25, 2022
A Legal History of Abortion in the US, Before and After Roe v. Wade

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to take a closer look at the history of Roe v. Wade and abortion law.
May 25, 2022
‘It’s Not Working Fast Enough.’ Heartbreak, Drugs, and Crime Persist at Mass. And Cass, Leaving Neighbors Asking, ‘What’s Next?’

Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe that the removal of tents and the recent shuttering of an engagement center were “wrong-headed initiatives that leaned too heavily on law enforcement to simply sweep the problems of Mass. and Cass under the proverbial rug.”
May 24, 2022
Salus Populi Judicial Education Program Expands with Additional Funding

The Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, has received two additional two years of funding (2022-2024) to support and expand upon Salus Populi, the nation’s first education program for judges that provides critical information about the social determinants of health.
May 23, 2022
Frequent Tragedies Spur ‘Mass Shooting Protocol’ Handbook for Local Officials

Sarah Peck ’96, director of #UnitedOnGuns, a nonpartisan initiative of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, joined NPR’s All Things Considered to talk about the Mass Shooting Protocol and Playbook, a checklist and handbook produced in collaboration with a group of US mayors who have presided over large-scale shooting incidents. These resources provide a guide for mayors to prepare for, respond to, the needs of survivors and their communities when recovering from a mass shooting.
May 23, 2022
‘Stay in the Race.’ The Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76 Inspires Northeastern Law Graduates To Pursue Justice

The Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76 delivered a rousing commencement speech at Friday’s ceremony and urged the class of 2022 not to let “the challenges of practicing law ever defeat you.”
May 20, 2022
Will the US Now Jump Through Hoops To Bring WNBA Player Brittney Griner Home?

Calling Brittney Griner wrongfully detained “opens up options for engagement in her case, including potential diplomatic options,” says Professor Xander Meise.
May 17, 2022
She Pioneered the Sale of Breast Milk, Then Lost Everything

“[Nonprofit milk banks] are saddened by the idea that this product that they believe in very strongly and think would benefit a lot of babies would be less accessible if allocated on the basis of company profit rather than patient need,” Professor Kara Swanson, author of Banking on the Body,” tells The Washington Post. “In the history of U.S. medicine, there has never been enough banked breast milk for all the babies that might benefit.”
May 16, 2022
As Poor Nations Seek Covid Pills, Officials Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis

“Both Merck and Pfizer have reserved for themselves all the high-income countries and virtually all of the upper-middle-income countries and even some lower-middle-income countries,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. Professor Baker recently submitted a legal brief in support of the Dominican Republic’s petition to allow the distribution of the generic version of Paxlovid.
May 13, 2022
Getting Abortion Pills by Mail Is Already More Complicated Than It Might Seem

"There are greater risks to health if you’re getting medication and you don’t know where it’s coming from," Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News. “What we’re really going to have is chaos."
May 13, 2022
Northeastern’s 2022 Commencement to Award Bodrick ’20 with Honorary Degree

The Reverend Willie Bodrick II ’20 will be honored with a Doctor of Community Service at Northeastern University’s Commencement exercises later today!
May 12, 2022
Who Should Decide the Nation’s Pandemic Response?

“The questions raised by the mask mandate cases, as with so many other Covid-19 cases, is not which policy is correct. It’s who should answer that question? Judges or health officials?,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an opinion piece for Bloomberg Law.
May 12, 2022
‘It’s a Tsunami’: Legal Challenges Threatening Public Health Policy

“Judicial review is an important deterrent against overreach and abuse,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Politico.
May 11, 2022
Would Term Limits Help with Politicization of the Supreme Court?

There's a lot of precedent for the idea of term limits for judges." On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed talks about the likelihood and options for reform to the structure of the Supreme Court.
May 10, 2022
Four Northeastern Law Students Awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowships

Mary Lemay ’22, Maya McCann ’22, Bavani Sridhar and Milo Vieland ’22 have been awarded Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellowships, one of the most prestigious and competitive post-graduate legal fellowships in the country.
May 09, 2022
Northeastern Law Graduate Looks To Support Underserved Communities as Intellectual Property Attorney

Simone Yhap ’22, the 55th National Chair of the National Black Law Students Association, is profiled by News@Northeastern. “Whenever I’m leading something or engaged in something, I ask, ‘How is this positively impacting the communities, not only that I’m a part of, but more importantly, that I’m serving?’,” says Yhap who has secured a post-graduation job as an intellectual property litigation associate at Mintz Levin.
May 09, 2022
Will the U.S. Now Jump Through Hoops To Bring WNBA Player Brittney Griner Home?

Calling Brittney Griner wrongfully detained “opens up options for engagement in her case, including potential diplomatic options,” says Professor Xander Meise.
May 09, 2022
Baker Contributes to Complaint Citing International Human Rights Law Violations in COVID Vaccine and Medicines Distribution

Professor Brook Baker ’76 is among the members of an international coalition of human rights groups, public health experts and civil society organizations that submitted inputs and submitted a petition to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) arguing that Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) are in violation of international human rights law by failing to intervene on inequitable and racially discriminatory rollout of COVID vaccines and other healthcare technologies.
May 06, 2022
Post-Roe, Could States Outlaw Abortion Pills?

Abortion medications are available by mail and offer an FDA-approved option for those hoping to terminate an early pregnancy. If Roe is overturned, could the pills be criminalized? Professor Wendy Parmet weighs in.
May 04, 2022
Who Leaked the Supreme Court Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade? Four Theories.

SCOTUS’s security breach was bound to happen, says Professor Dan Urman. In an interview with news@Northeastern , he lays out possible theories behind the leaked #abortion draft opinion.
May 04, 2022
Contraception Could Come Under Fire Next if Roe v Wade is Overturned

“There are a lot of decisions that follow from the idea of a constitutional right to privacy,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian. “Once you throw down the best-known decision in that category of cases, every single other case is now up for grabs.”
May 04, 2022
The Leaked SCOTUS Draft Threatens Contraception and Same-sex Marriage Rights, Too.

The willingness of the conservative justices to take such a brazen stance against Roe v. Wade threatens other rights rooted in the same privacy framework, including contraception and same-sex marriage rights, says Professor Martha Davis.
May 03, 2022
Paxlovid’s Slow, Targeted Rollout Leaves Vulnerable Populations at Risk

Professor Brook Baker ’76 welcomes the Biden administration’s plans to expand access to Paxlovid, the first medication developed to treat COVID-19. However, “that still leaves a lot of people uncovered who aren’t near those kinds of facilities,” he says.
May 03, 2022
Professor Williams Conferred with Honorary Degree by University of Antwerp

The University of Antwerp’s faculty of law has awarded Professor Patricia Williams with an honorary degree in recognition of her expertise in the field of race, gender, literature and law and her outstanding contribution to legal and ethical debates on society, science and technology in the light of individual autonomy and identity.
May 02, 2022
Quisquella Addison Joins Northeastern Law’s LSSC Program as Assistant Teaching Professor

Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Quisquella Addison will join the university on July 1, 2022, as an assistant teaching professor in the Legal Skills in Social Context program.
May 01, 2022
The Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76 to Deliver Northeastern Law Commencement Address

The Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76, legal pioneer and senior US District Court judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, will deliver Northeastern University School of Law’s commencement address on Friday, May 20, 2022.
Apr 29, 2022
Commencement 2022

Members of the class of 2022 will receive their degrees during the School of Law’s commencement ceremony in Matthews Arena on Friday, May 20. For those who are unable to attend #NUSL2022, the School of Law is pleased to offer a live video stream of the ceremony.
Apr 27, 2022
Opinion: Should Utah Be Glad it’s a Holdout Against Gambling? You Bet.

“I see many similarities between the gambling industry and big tobacco,” says Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI). “Cigarettes are sold in packs that fit in our hand easily. … And now, in more than half the states, I think, gamblers can just similarly reach into their pockets for their phones to satisfy their need for action.”
Apr 27, 2022
Irina Gott Joins Northeastern Law

Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program is delighted to welcome Irina Gott as a teaching professor.
Apr 26, 2022
The Rise and Rise of Anti-Asian American Discrimination

“Every single Asian-American I have talked to has had some experience with discrimination — every single one,” says Professor Margaret Woo, who will moderate the first in a two-part series of programs on discrimination against Asian-Americans this Thursday at 6:00PM. The free series developed by Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force is hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and sponsored by a number of Boston-area organizations.
Apr 25, 2022
Trailblazers Celebrate as Rachael Rollins is Formally Sworn in as US Attorney

Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who was formerly sworn in as US attorney for Massachusetts on April 22, making her the first Black woman to hold the post.
Apr 22, 2022
Experts Not Bullish On Members of Congress Trading Stock

Professors Jeremy Paul, David Philips and Blaine Saito weigh in on the congressional stock trading debate.
Apr 22, 2022
Three Northeastern Law Grads Among Boston’s 100 Most Influential People

Betty Francisco ’98, Mass. AG. Maura Healey ’98 and U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins ’97 have been named to Boston Magazine's 2022 Most Influential People in Boston list.
Apr 21, 2022
Dr. Deborah A. Jackson Joins CLEAR as Managing Director

Dr. Deborah A. Jackson has joined Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as managing director.
Apr 20, 2022
Drug-Induced Panic

"Overdose mortalities and related harms require a public health response, not more criminalization and incarceration," writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored piece for Inquest.
Apr 20, 2022
Why the Real Legal Case Behind ‘the Girl From Plainville’ Is So Complicated

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about the Michelle Carter trial and the legal framework for homicide.
Apr 20, 2022
DOJ to Appeal Travel Mask Mandate Ruling After CDC Says Masks Still Needed on Public Transportation

Professor Wendy Parmet comments for Politico on the travel mask ruling: “It’s about who makes our public health policy. The judiciary – a 35-year-old unelected judge – or the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services?”
Apr 14, 2022
Northeastern Launches Burnes Center for Social Change

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Northeastern University's Burnes Center for Social Change. Honoring the legacy of the Honorable Nonnie S. Burnes ’77-‘78, the center will develop problem-solvers to take on climate change, racial justice, education reform and other pressing issues. #NUSLPride #WIL2022
Apr 11, 2022
Professor Davis’ Work on Water Affordability Recognized as Top Cited Article

Congratulations to Professor Martha Davis whose work “An Experiment in Making Water Affordable: Philadelphia's Tiered Assistance Program (TAP),” has been recognized as a #TopCitedArticle in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Apr 08, 2022
Boston to Replace School Buses with Electric Ones by 2030

“The plan to electrify Boston’s school buses by 2030 “is absolutely the right move,” says Staci Rubin ’10, vice president of environmental justice at the Conservation Law Foundation. “Electric school buses dramatically improve air quality and our children deserve to be in a tailpipe emissions-free vehicle.”
Apr 07, 2022
Podcast Episode: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Listen: Professor Beth Noveck, author of Solving Public Problems and director of the Governance Lab, joined the EFF Podcast to talk about how civic technology can enhance people's relationship with the government and help improve their communities.
Apr 06, 2022
Black Man Sentenced to 124 Years for Selling Fentanyl That Led to Overdose

"Drug-induced homicide cases are counterproductive to Good Samaritan laws, which protect people who seek medical assistance during an overdose," Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Health in Justice Action Lab, tells VICE.
Apr 06, 2022
How President Biden Can Expand Global COVID-19 Test-To-Treat

In a piece for Health Affairs, Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, and his co-authors recommend a number of concrete steps for policy makers to take “to ameliorate testing and treatment disparities in the short term and build toward a more equitable global response in the medium to long term.”
Apr 06, 2022
National Whistleblower Center Executive Director Siri Nelson – WNN Exclusive Interview

On the Whistleblower Network News podcast, Siri Nelson ’19, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and an adjunct professor at Northeastern Law, discusses the ins and outs of information whistleblowers need to know and how they can get help.
Apr 05, 2022
Untangling the Legal Ethics of Lawyers and the Jan. 6 Insurrection

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about legal ethics and the investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Apr 04, 2022
Luz Arévalo Helps Immigrant and Low-Income Clients Facing Tax Problems

Check out the ABA Journal's profile of Luz Arévalo '93, senior attorney and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at Boston Legal Aid
Apr 01, 2022
Yhap Leads National Black Law Students Association

Simone Yhap ’22 has been elected the 55th national chair and chief executive officer of the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA).
Mar 28, 2022
Scientists Object to Inclusion in Globe’s Philip Morris Ad

“The Globe certainly should know what’s going on here, though Philip Morris is paying them good money to keep their gaze averted,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute.
Mar 24, 2022
Black Women are Leaning into Joy Throughout Jackson’s Hearings: ‘We Need to Celebrate This’

“Jackson’s career models all that can be possible for young Black women,” Simone Yhap ’22, national chair of the National Black Law Students Association, tells The Washington Post. “She has broken the glass ceiling that others have imposed upon us, and we’re stepping all over these shards.”
Mar 24, 2022
A Month into the Invasion of Ukraine, Is the Russian Army Becoming Demoralized?

“When you are trying to engage in a military campaign for an extended period of time, being able to maintain morale is very important to unit cohesion,” says Professor Alexandra Meise.
Mar 23, 2022
Russia’s Attacks on Civilian Targets Have Obliterated Everyday Life in Ukraine

“There is only so much we can learn from photographs,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells The New York Times. “As much as a photograph is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, a photograph cannot necessarily tell you intent or the legitimacy of a military objective.”
Mar 18, 2022
HIV Outbreak Among Drug Users Accelerates in Boston

Diffusing the concentration of homeless can make “it seem like things are better, but it further marginalizes and makes it harder for them to access services,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The Boston Globe. “Such a move can also lead to upticks in overdoses and HIV infections.”
Mar 17, 2022
New "Compromise" on an IP Waiver for Covid Vaccines Is Worse Than No Deal, Activists Say

“Even if vaccines were the only consideration, overriding patents alone is not enough,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells In These Times magazine.
Mar 16, 2022
What Happens to an American Imprisoned in Russia? For a WNBA Star, the Troubles Have Only Just Begun.

The timing of WNBA Star Brittney Griner’s arrest in Russia on drug possession charges "could not be worse for her," says Professor Alexandra (Xander) Meise.
Mar 16, 2022
Despite Shows of Solidarity, Attacks on Asian Americans Continue a Year After Atlanta Massacre

Professor Margaret Woo tells News@Northeastern that instances of violence against Asian Americans remain troublingly pervasive: “So often, these issues fall away, not because they have been resolved, but because readers’ attention span is short.”
Mar 16, 2022
If Elected DA, Will Kevin Hayden Keep Rachael Rollins’ Progressive Policies in Place?

The upcoming Suffolk County DA election is going to be a "fascinating referendum on whether the progressive prosecutorial movement is here to stay in Boston, or whether it's just a short term blip on our political radar," says Professor Daniel Medwed.
Mar 11, 2022
Dean Hackney Signs Letter of Support for Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brown Jackson

Dean James Hackney is among 38 Black law school deans who have sent a letter of support too the U.S. Senate Leadership and the Committee on the Judiciary for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
Mar 10, 2022
Will Putin Face War Crimes Charges? Here’s How the Legal Process May Play Out.

An arrest warrant against Putin doesn’t guarantee a conviction, says Professor Alexandra Meise, an international law expert. Charging him for war crimes could take years.
Mar 10, 2022
Supreme Court Declines to Consider Reinstating Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Conviction

The Pennsylvania court's controversial 2021 ruling to vacate Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction had “nothing to do with guilt or innocence,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells People magazine. "It's really more of a reaction to what I would consider a prosecutorial misstep."
Mar 09, 2022
The Supreme Court Reinstated the Death Penalty for the Boston Marathon Bomber. What Does That Mean for Capital Punishment in the US?

“The present Supreme Court is an ideological one that’s not sensitive to opinion polls or popular views,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells News@Northeastern. “I see no evidence that the court is interested in changing the death penalty.”
Mar 09, 2022
Northeastern Law Team Awarded Best Petitioner Brief at NEBLSA Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition

Gizela Zaqueu ’23 and Genevievre Miller ’23 were awarded Best Petitioner Brief at the regional Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition held during the 54th Northeast Black Law Students Association’s (NEBLSA) regional convention in February.
Mar 07, 2022
Covid-19 Misinformation Tests Doctors’ Free Speech Rights

“The First Amendment assumes an equality between speakers that really doesn’t reflect the reality that exists between doctors and patients concerning medical matters, and doesn’t protect the interests of laypeople in getting sound information,” Professor Claudia Haupt tells Bloomberg News.
Mar 07, 2022
Covid Pill Prescriber Rules Limit Reach of ‘Test to Treat’ Plan

“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
Mar 02, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Would Be the First Public Defender on the Supreme Court. What Impact Could She Have?

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to talk about the significance of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the US Supreme Court.
Feb 25, 2022
After 20 Years in Prison for a Murder He Says He Didn’t Commit, His Conviction Was Overturned, but He’s Not Free Yet

“It’s not a question of being tough on crime or soft on crime, it’s about being fair on crime,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells News 5 Cleveland.
Feb 25, 2022
The Global COVID-19 Treatment Divide

“We are now seeing a resurgent wave of therapeutics nationalism just as pernicious as vaccine nationalism,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells The Lancet.
Feb 23, 2022
How Far Is Too Far? Legal Analyst Dives Into Privacy Concerns in Massachusetts Wiretapping Proposal

Listen back: On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed breaks down the arguments for and against amending Massachusetts’ wiretapping law.
Feb 23, 2022
Does a Fair Way to Decide Who Gets The Death Penalty Actually Exist?

“It is far beyond time to turn the page—to move on from a punishment that, while deeply rooted in our history, has never proven worthy of retention,” write Professors Michael Meltsner and Daniel Medwed in a co-authored piece for Slate.
Feb 18, 2022
Can States Preserve Access to Abortion if Roe v. Wade is Overturned?

More state legislatures are mobilizing in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on an abortion ban in Mississippi, which directly threatens the rights spelled out in Roe v. Wade. Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul weigh in on the latest effort in Vermont.
Feb 17, 2022
Here’s How the $73M Sandy Hook Settlement Against a Gunmaker Could Prompt More Suits

A unique settlement that pays $73 million to the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims is influencing the way guns are marketed in the United States—and may inspire lawsuits in other industries, including social media, according to Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute.
Feb 07, 2022
Prosecutors Are Going After Michael K. Williams’ Alleged Dealer Using An Increasingly Common — And Controversial — Charge

“Williams’ death is being commemorated by ratcheting up and feeding the war on drugs and deploying these failed approaches,” Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern Law’s Health In Justice Action Lab tells the Gothamist. “And it's a travesty. It's a desecration of his life and career.”
Feb 07, 2022
PHRGE Submits Testimony in Support of Safe Communities Act

Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Right and the Global Economy (PHRGE) recently submitted testimony to the Massachusetts General Court’s Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security in support of the proposed Safe Communities Act (H.2418/S.1579), which seeks to protect the civil rights and safety of all Massachusetts residents by limiting state law enforcement’s involvement in federal immigration enforcement.
Feb 04, 2022
Change is Underway in Communities of Color as Leadership Grows more Diverse

“Representation at the top is vital to opening doors to more diverse talent and advancing policy and programs that create more equitable outcomes for all Massachusetts residents,” Betty Francisco ’98, CEO of Boston Impact Initiative Fund and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, in a co-authored piece for the Boston Business Journal.
Feb 03, 2022
Mass. Highest Court to Weigh in on Racial Bias in Predatory Home Loans

“A lot of conversations about procedure may seem dry or arcane or technical, but I often like to say that procedure is the key that opens the courthouse door, that without procedural access, you don't have a chance at substantive justice,” says Professor Daniel Medwed.
Feb 02, 2022
Mass. Lawmakers Advance Digital Privacy Bill

“Real privacy data legislation would protect people regardless of what they choose, and consent to,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The Boston Globe. “This legislation doesn’t seem to offer that… It’s just going to allow business as usual.”
Feb 01, 2022
Black History Month Quotes to Inspire

The Northeastern Law community celebrates the history, contributions and global impact of people of the African diaspora throughout the year in our classrooms, publications and through special lectures and events. In honor of Black History Month, Northeastern Law graduates are invited to share an inspiring quote or some sentiments of your own.
Jan 31, 2022
Legal Legend Fights To Outlaw Tobacco as He Celebrates 52 Years at Northeastern

“For me, being alive means learning, it means being involved,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, who recently celebrated 52 years of teaching at the school of law.
Jan 27, 2022
3 Changes That Mayor Wu and Boston’s Next Police Commissioner Must Make

The choosing of Boston’s next police commissioner is an opportunity to reexamine the role of police in Boston, write Professor Deborah Ramirez and Claire Bergstresser in a co-authored piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
Jan 27, 2022
Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules Hit Republican Judge Blockade

“We’re putting our heads in the sand if we ignore the way partisanship has come to impact how judges see issues,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
Jan 21, 2022
Maura Healey ’98 Announces Her Bid for Massachusetts Governor

Mass AG Maura Healey ’98 has announced her candidacy to be the next governor of Massachusetts.
Jan 11, 2022
Professor Hartung and Stewart ’21 Report on Massachusetts Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline

Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung and Erin Stewart ’21, a Skadden Fellow at Citizens for Juvenile Justice, are co-authors of “Criminalizing a “Rough Life”: A Study of Systems Involvement Among Incarcerated People in Massachusetts”— a report illuminating the results of Phase 1 of Northeastern’s Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline (C2P) jail and prison survey.
Jan 11, 2022
Will Charlie Baker Commute a Convicted Murderer’s Life Sentence?

“After Willie Horton, there was this perception that the parole board would be really careful with any an all release decisions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. “You have this culture that over the last 30 years has been more cautious politically.”
Jan 10, 2022
Boston’s Top Prosecutor to be Sworn in as U.S. Attorney Monday

Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who will be sworn in today as the first Black woman US Attorney for Massachusetts!
Jan 07, 2022
The Government’s Ability to Control the Pandemic is at Stake

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today about two of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 regulations. At stake “is not only the future of the pandemic but also the federal government’s capacity to respond to continuing and future health threats,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, in a guest essay for The New York Times.
Jan 06, 2022
Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine

“In the absence of principled guidelines, the [major questions] doctrine serves as a major transfer of federal policymaking power from the elected branches to an unelected and unaccountable judiciary,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in a co-authored piece for the Petrie Flom Center’s Bill of Health Blog. “Worse, it offers those who are regulated yet another way to challenge any and all federal health regulations, allowing litigation to become our primary means of making public health policy.”
Jan 05, 2022
Quaime Lee ’02 Takes the Helm of Northeastern Law’s Center for Co-op and Career Development

Northeastern Law is thrilled to announce the appointment of Quaime Lee ’02 as assistant dean for co-op and career development. In this role, Lee is heading the Center for Co-op and Career Development — Lee and his team provide counseling and strategic advice to students undertaking full-time co-op work experiences across the globe and also offer critical assistance to students in the post-graduate job acquisition process.
Jan 05, 2022
CLEAR Announces Spring Cohort of Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellows

Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) is pleased to announce the second set of recipients of the Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellowship: Azra Carrington ’23; Claire Bergstresser ’23; Taylor Kim ’23; Robin MacFadden ’22; and Allison Wise ’23.

2021 Dec 21, 2021
Noveck Named to Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government List

Professor Beth Noveck, director of The Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation at Northeastern University and its partner project, The GovLab, has been named to Apolitical’s list of the 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.
Dec 21, 2021
The Unalienable Rights Commission: Dead or Dormant?

“While the Commission on Unalienable Rights is officially dead, human rights attorneys and advocates must keep an eye on developments at Notre Dame,” writes Sandy Recinos ’23 who completed her fall co-op with Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. “No one should be lulled into thinking that the ill-conceived parts of the Unalienable Rights report will simply go away quietly.”
Dec 17, 2021
What Does it Mean to be in Contempt of Congress?

Congress has voted to hold two key advisors to former president Donald Trump in contempt as they investigate the deadly Capitol insurrection on January 6. Professor Jeremy Paul explains what that means...
Dec 15, 2021
Supreme Court Rundown: Will Roe Survive?

Listen back: Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, joined Ms. magazine's On the Issues podcast to unpack the issues at stake in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that some believe could overturn Roe v. Wade.
Dec 13, 2021
Richardson Co-Authors “Smart City” Report

Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 is the co-author of a new report that examines an emergent form of smart-city projects called digital identification (“digital ID”) and offers pathways forward to ensure constituent needs are addressed.
Dec 09, 2021
What Does Justice Look Like for Those Exonerated After Decades? A Case for Black Reparations

“What happened in all three cases—in Aziz and Islam’s, Broadwater’s, and Strickland’s—amount to travesties of justice,” Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick tells news@Northeastern. But she adds: “It’s never too late to tell the truth.”
Dec 09, 2021
Rollins ’97 Confirmed to Top Justice Department Post

Rachael Rollins ’97 has been confirmed by the US Senate as President Biden's choice for US Attorney for Massachusetts. “Rachael has been an inspiring role model for people of color and women, from her days as a law student to her election as Suffolk County District Attorney to this historic moment,” Dean James Hackney told news@Northeastern. “I am confident she will combine tenacity with wisdom as she assumes the responsibilities of this important office.”
Dec 03, 2021
Time for Safehouse to Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission, on Philly Supervised Injection Site, Experts Say

“A lot of innovation in harm reduction has really proceeded through civil disobedience in the United States,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells WHYY News. “It has not proceeded through formal legal channels."
Dec 03, 2021
Half of Us Could Lose Abortion Access if Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

With a series of so-called “trigger laws” on the books in 21 states and elected officials hostile to abortion in charge of five more, half the country stands to lose access to abortion if the high court overturns Roe v. Wade. And, during oral arguments in a case over a Mississippi law that flies in the face of Roe, it appeared some justices were willing to do just that, say Professors Libby Adler and Martha Davis.
Dec 02, 2021
Joseph Gordon Says He's No Murderer. That’s Why He’s Still in Prison.

“There is a very strong presumption that claiming innocence is a sign of denial,” Professor Daniel Medwed, a founding member of the board of directors of the Innocence Network, tells The New York Times.
Nov 24, 2021
Civil Rights Attorney Frederick Brewington ’82 Hails Arbery Guilty Verdicts

“While justice has been served today because of this verdict, we still have a long way to go in making our justice system more equitable,” Frederick Brewington ’82 , a civil rights attorney and principal of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, tells Black Star News. “It is every person’s duty to not run from the historical realities of racism that continue to divide us, but to address them and engage with each other to solve these deep-rooted concerns.”
Nov 18, 2021
Espada ’85 Wins 2021 National Book Award in Poetry

Congratulations to Martín Espada ’85, winner of a 2021 National Book Award in poetry for his collection, “Floaters,” which celebrates rebels and dreamers and condemns the poor governmental response to Hurricane Maria in 2017 in Puerto Rico, his father’s home country. “These poems remind us of the power of observation, of seeing everything,” all of it “worthy of song,” the judges said.
Nov 12, 2021
Northeastern Law Announces Inaugural Racial Justice Faculty Fellowships

In support of its public interest mission and commitment to eliminating racism, Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce that four faculty members have been awarded inaugural Racial Justice Faculty Fellowships.
Oct 29, 2021
Is Mass And Cass Forcible Removal Legal? Here's What Our Expert Says

The city of Boston said it would begin removing tents at the homeless encampment at Mass and Cass. Are forcible removals like this legal? Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, weighs in.
Oct 21, 2021
How Not to Talk About Race

“We cannot legislate feelings about race into silence,” writes Professor Patricia Williams in her latest column for The Nation. ”Outlawing shame, guilt, and discomfort is not only silly and impossible; it positions race the same way blasphemy laws position speaking ill of God or the king.”
Oct 20, 2021
Martha F. Davis: The Threat of Inequality: COVID-19, Human Rights, and the Pandora Papers

Oct 19, 2021
Human Behavior, Legal Doctrine and Policy Design

Listen back: On the Voices in Vulnerability podcast, Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, talks about taking on the tobacco industry, the importance of emotion to humanity and dispelling the notion of the rational actor.
Sep 28, 2021
Some Advocates and Experts Push Back Against Sheriff’s Mass. & Cass Proposal

“For people who are already incarcerated, of course we should be providing them with the highest level of care possible,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The BostonGlobe. “But paying taxpayer funds to repurpose jail-like [facilities] into ‘treatment’ is not supported by science or civil rights concerns.”
Sep 24, 2021
Can Roe V. Wade Be Saved? She’s Among a Group Making a Case to the Supreme Court.

Professor Martha Davis joined the fight to preserve access to abortions this week, filing a brief that urges the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade amid conservative momentum to upend the 1973 ruling. The brief was also signed by Northeastern law professor Margaret Woo.
Sep 22, 2021
With CLEAR Objectives, Northeastern Law Announces New Center for Law, Equity and Race

Today, Northeastern University School of Law launches a new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), which will bring together the school’s pioneering programs and faculty— long engaged in theoretical and translational research, innovative pedagogy and collaborations with external communities — to address today’s challenges and provide tomorrow’s solutions for the nation’s most complex social challenges.
Sep 21, 2021
After Sandy Hook, She Knew She Had to Do Something About Mass Shootings

Sarah Peck ’96, director of #UnitedOnGuns, a nonpartisan initiative of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, recently collaborated with US mayors who presided over large-scale shooting incidents to produce what is believed to be the first handbook for municipal leaders spelling out what they need to do in the critical hours after a mass shooting.
Sep 20, 2021
Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellowships Awarded to Northeastern Law Students

Northeastern Law is pleased to announce the first recipients of the Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellowship, which honors the legacy of the late Massachusetts chief justice by continuing his commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion in the judiciary and court systems.
Sep 14, 2021
MA Highest Court To Decide: Should Dept. Of Corrections Do More To Stop COVID Prison Outbreaks?

Listen back: Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to discuss cases before the Mass. SJC this month.
Sep 09, 2021
A Conversation with Beth Simone Noveck on Solving Public Problems

Listen back: Professor Beth Noveck, director of the Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation, discusses her new book, Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.
Sep 08, 2021
I Won Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Case. Here’s Why I’m Optimistic About Transgender Rights.

“Time and connection have brought us to a moment where we have a real opportunity to pass the Equality Act to update our civil rights laws for the modern era,” writes Mary Bonauto ’87, civil rights project director at GLAD, in an op-ed for USA Today.
Sep 07, 2021
What the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Allow Texas’ Abortion Law Means for Roe V. Wade

“If the Mississippi challenge [to Roe v. Wade] is like a car going along on the highway at the speed limit, then Texas is like a speeding car that blazes in and cuts Mississippi off,” says Professor Dan Urman.
Sep 01, 2021
We’ve Entered a New Era in the Legal Battles of COVID-19

“In a well-functioning polity, we would not need litigation to ensure that children can remain healthy at school,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in an op-ed for The Atlantic.
Sep 01, 2021
Meet the Law Professor Who Helped Refugees Escape Afghanistan. Her Work Has Just Begun.

Professor Alexandra (Xander) Meise was among the thousands of volunteers from military, legal and other backgrounds to collaborate in the “Digital Dunkirk” movement to help people escape from Afghanistan before the United States’ official withdrawal on Tuesday. “It does give you hope at a time when hope is hard to find,” she tells news@Northeastern.
Aug 31, 2021
Northeastern Law Ranked No. 1 for Public Interest

In recognition of its national leadership in preparing students for public interest lawyering, Northeastern University School of Law has been ranked No. 1 for public interest in the 2021 “back to school” issue of preLawmagazine.
Aug 20, 2021
McGrath ’23 Contributes Article to NU Law Review's Online Forum

“Connecticut has made social equity and criminal justice reform the focal points of its efforts to legalize the adult recreational use of cannabis,” writes Alex McGrath ’23 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
Aug 20, 2021
Anti-Vaxxers Try a New Ploy: Selling Religious Vaccine Exemptions Online

"We really do not want to be at a situation where our employers are scrutinizing and testing our religious sincerity,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The American Independent. “We do not have an established religion and orthodoxy in this country. And yet, that is ripe for abuse and it allows for exploitation of the religious exemption."
Aug 19, 2021
Northeastern Law Scholar With a Focus on Data Justice Appointed to White House Post

Professor Rashida Richardson '11 has been appointed to a new White House role in which she will help to advise President Joe Biden and others on issues related to data, automated systems, digital privacy and security, and civil rights.
Aug 19, 2021
A Tribute to Nonnie S. Burnes

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that The Honorable Nonnie S. Burnes ’77-‘78, founder of Northeastern Law's Public Interest Law Scholars Program and a former Trustee of Northeastern and associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, passed away Saturday.
Aug 16, 2021
Rich Nations Dip Into COVAX Supply While Poor Wait for Shots

“Rich countries are trying to garner geopolitical benefits from bilateral dose-sharing,” says Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP.
Aug 13, 2021
Webinar: COVID Vaccines for the Few

On July 14, 2021, Professors Brook Baker and Martha Davis joined a panel of experts to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality and vaccinations. The webinar was sponsored by Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and University of Minnesota Law School Human Rights Center.
Aug 11, 2021
Why Resigning Won’t End Cuomo’s Problems

Professors Martha Davis and Rose Zoltek-Jick say civil and criminal charges against Cuomo will likely continue, even after he steps down as governor of New York. Both credit the bravery of the women who came forward under pressure and retaliation for resolving the political scandal.
Aug 09, 2021
House Democrats Push For Vaccine-Or-Test Mandate For Members And Staff

Professor Wendy Parmet tells Forbes the law around vaccine mandates for Congress is “different” than for other employers, but that the legal case for vaccine mandates in general is “pretty strong” if some exemptions are provided.
Aug 06, 2021
NH Police Department Under Fire for Listing ‘Qualified Immunity’ as Job Perk in Recruitment Post

“The ad is correct," Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of Northeastern Law's Criminal Justice Task Force, tells 7News Boston. "It is a good recruiting tool to say to anyone in that job, ‘No matter what you do, whether you commit a crime, put your knee on someone’s neck for nine minutes, you will not be held financially liable."
Aug 06, 2021
Trailblazing US Gymnast Simone Biles Takes on Trauma

The hope, says Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law's Domestic Violence Institute, is that Biles’s actions also help normalize mental health issues that many adults struggle with in everyday life.
Aug 05, 2021
Army Unveils Memorial to a Black Soldier Lynched on Military Base 80 Years Ago

On August 4, the army unveiled a historic marker honoring the life of Private Felix Hall, who was found hanging from a tree on a segregated Army base in Georgia in 1941. Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) was first to unearth the FBI file on Hall, the only known victim of a lynching on a US military installation.
Aug 05, 2021
Cuomo’s Alleged Harassment of Women Is ‘All about Power and Control,’ Says Northeastern Scholar

“I don’t think that Cuomo thought he was doing anything wrong, which is problematic,” Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells news@Northeastern. “That doesn’t mitigate the harm or the fact that he was doing something wrong and that no one intervened.”
Aug 03, 2021
Is Smirking at a Sheriff’s Deputy a Hate Crime in Utah?

Commenting for Utah Political Underground, Professor Daniel Medwed says he’s troubled about the possibility of selective prosecution in the case of a Utah woman who has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly smirking at a sheriff's deputy and stomping on a pro-police sign. “Of all the potential hate crimes to investigate and prosecute in the state of Utah, why this one?” he asks.
Jul 30, 2021
No More Hyde and Seek: Biden’s Removal of the Hyde Amendment from the Proposed Budget is a Win for Abortion Access

President Biden's budget proposal, which reverses a decades-long ban on abortion funding, is a "significant win for protecting abortion rights," writes Mackenzie Darling '22 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
Jul 29, 2021
Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021

In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."
Jul 29, 2021
Northeastern Law’s LSSC/Legal Writing Program Welcomes Four New Faculty

Northeastern Law's Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program is delighted to welcome four new faculty members. Combining a wealth of both teaching and social justice experience, the group adds considerable strength to the innovative LLSC program, which teaches legal skills through a social justice lawyering lens, ensuring that graduates are prepared to use the law to address systemic oppression.
Jul 26, 2021
Biden Nominates Rachael Rollins as US Attorney for Massachusetts

Congratulations to Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 on her historic nomination to serve as the next US Attorney for Massachusetts!
Jul 22, 2021
PHRGE Releases New Report on Water and Human Rights in the US

Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy has released the latest publication in its series on water and human rights in the US, “Voluntary Local Reviews and the Human Right to Water.”
Jul 21, 2021
Northeastern Law Magazine: Summer 2021 Issue

Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Fertile Ground,' 'Inching Toward Immunity' and 'Talking 'Bout Evolution.' Read it online today!
Jul 20, 2021
Rodney Reed And Why It’s So Hard To Overturn Wrongful Convictions

On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a case being heard in Texas this week involving a death row inmate named Rodney Reed that illustrates the problems with wrongful convictions and the difficulties in overturning them.
Jul 20, 2021
Un(re)solved Episode 5: The Future

Listen to the final episode of the #Un(re)solved podcast, a five-part investigation of civil rights era cold case murders, produced by Frontline PBS in collaboration with Northeastern Law's Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project.
Jun 29, 2021
Lehotay de León ’23 Awarded Equal Justice Fellowship

Andra Lehotay de León ’23 has been selected to join the inaugural class of the Equal Justice Works Disaster Resilience Program Student Fellows.
May 12, 2021
Gulino ’21 Awarded Equal Justice Fellowship

Lucie Gulino ’21 has been awarded an Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellowship, one of the most prestigious and competitive post-graduate legal fellowships in the country.
Apr 21, 2021
How Derek Chauvin Became the Rare Police Officer Convicted of Murder

Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Washington Post that the effort to separate Chauvin from police was “a wise choice” to appeal to any jurors who might be uneasy with some of the sharpest criticisms of police and calls to reform or defund them.
Apr 09, 2021
ACC News Special Report on the Trial of Former Police Office Derek Chauvin

Watch: Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of NUSL's Criminal Justice Task Force and a long-time advocate for policy changes in the criminal justice system, contributes to an ABC News Special Report on the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. “This trial is really about policing in America and police accountability,” she says.

2020 Nov 02, 2020
Davis Joins HR2W Expert Panel

Professor Martha Davis was recently invited to become a member of the expert panel of Human Right 2 Water (HR2W), an international water advocacy organization in Geneva that focuses on integrating the human rights to water and sanitation into law, policy and practice worldwide.

December 28, 2020: Margo Lindauer, People, “Domestic Abuse Survivor Works to Help Women and Kids as Cases Skyrocket During Pandemic.”

December 23, 2020: Emily Spieler, Legal Talk Network, “The Year that Was in Workers Comp.”

December 18, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Health Affairs, “Purdue’s Demise Could Be a New Beginning for the Pharmaceutical Industry”

December 18, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “Power Up: DOJ Settled for Billions to Allay the Opioid Crisis. The Challenge Now: Getting the Money.”

December 15, 2020: Aziza Ahmed and Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “Here’s Why We Need a PSA for the COVID-19 Vaccine.”

December 6, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Philadelphia May Be on the Way to a Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2020, another COVID-19 Consequence”

December 3, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Daily Beast, “The Terrifying Triple-Digit Spike in Pandemic Overdoses.”

December 1, 2020: Margo Lindauer, The Takeaway, “Domestic Violence Victims in the U.S. Are Lacking Resources During Pandemic.”

November 23, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Boston.com,“With Limited Boston Homeless Shelter Beds This Winter, Could Taking Private Property Be a Solution?.”

November 22, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Boston 25 News, “Northeastern Professor Suggests Commandeering Private Property for Shelter Use.”

November 20, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The Verge, “Drug Decriminalization in Oregon Could be a Step Toward Better Public Health.”

November 18, 2020: Margo Lindauer, GHB, “GBH News Legal Analyst on NEW SJC Pick.”

November 13, 2020: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “Study Details Lives and Money Saved by Supervised Drug Consumption.”

November 13, 2020: Emily Spieler, Bloomberg Law, “Biden’s Labor Landing Team is Built to Work Around a GOP Senate.”

November 7, 2020: Leo Beletsky, ARS Technica, “Voters Rejecting the War on Drugs Is a Win for Public Health.”

November 1, 2020: Leo Beletsky, International Journal of Drug Policy, “Intersectional Structural Vulnerability to Abusive Policing Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Mixed Methods Assessment in California's Central Valley.”

October 28, 2020: Michael Dukakis, Northeastern News, “The Election Is Almost Here. Stay Informed with These Events.”

October 28, 2020: Leo Beletsky, ABC News, “Almost Half of South Dakota's Prison Population Tests Positive for COVID-19.”

October 13, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, SCOTUS Blog, “Symposium: Ginsburg’s Abortion Jurisprudence Prioritized Women’s Health.”

October 10, 2020: Brook Baker, Health Policy Watch, “Moderna Makes Milestone Pledge To “Not Enforce Our Patents” On COVID-19 Vaccine Technologies During Pandemic & Issue Open Licenses Afterward.”

October 9, 2020: Claudia Haupt, Harvard Law Review, “Platforms as Trustees: Information Fiduciaries and the Value of Analogy: Responding to David E. Pozen & Lina M. Khan, A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries.”

October 8, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGap, “Moderna Responds to Activist Pressure, But In the Race for Our Lives, We Need More Than Baby Steps.”

October 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “Does the Public Have a Right to Know the State of the President’s COVID-19 Diagnosis?”

October 6, 2020: Claudia Haupt, Bill of Health, “When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences.”

October 1, 2020: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files,“COVID-19 Diagnostics: The Full Picture.”

October 1, 2020: Aziza Ahmed & Leo Beletsky, Northeastern News, “There’s More to October Than Halloween. Check Out This Month’s Events.”

September 30, 2020: Patricia Illingworth, Fifty Plus Advocate, “A Socially Conscious Scholar: Patricia Illingworth.”

September 30, 2020: Michael Sinha, HealthDay, “Was FDA Lax in Approving Opioids Too Easily?”

September 28, 2020: Carmen Sceppa, Study International News, “Sharpen Your Health Science Expertise at Northeastern University.”

September 26, 2020: Wendy Parmet, POLITICO, “How Amy Coney Barrett Might Rule.”

September 25, 2020: Wendy Parmet, POLITICO, “How Barrett Could Affect the Covid-19 Battle.”

September 23, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Philadelphia Inquirer, “Myths About Fentanyl Spread More Prolifically Online Than Articles Correcting Them, Study Finds.”

September 22, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Lagoa’s Resume Recalls Conservative Regret Over O’Connor, Souter.”

September 19, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, The Lancet, “Human Rights Parables For A Post-Pandemic World”

September 15, 2020: Brook Baker, Quartz,“Bill Gates Says Rich Countries Need To Ensure Covid-19 Vaccines Can Be Made Globally”

September 11, 2020: Claudia Haupt, AZCentral,“Yes, Vicki, Politicians Can Lie In Campaign Ads”

September 10, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Forbes,“Joe Biden’s “Mandatory Rehab” For Drug Users Are Rebranded Jails That Don’t Work And Cause Overdoses”

September 10, 2020: Wendy Parmet, AJPH Podcast,“Katrina, Flint, COVID-19 The Root Changes Public Health Needs”

September 10, 2020: Wendy Parmet, WGBH News,“As Campuses Reopen, Colleges Struggle To Balance Privacy and Public Safety”

September 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post,“Trust in Covid-19 Vaccines Could Turn on a Knife Edge”

September 1, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The Appeal,“Oregon Could Become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November”

August 24, 2020: Brook Baker, Nature,“The Unequal Scramble for Coronavirus Vaccines — By the Numbers”

August 18, 2020: Wendy Parmet, MedPage Today,“Legal Experts Blast U.S. Response to COVID-19”

August 2, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Pantagraph,“Pritzker says Illinois counties must act to stop COVID's spread. How much power do they have?”

August 1, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Harvard Law & Policy Review,“Scientific and Medical Expertise in the Prosecution of Pregnant Women”

July 30, 2020: Alisa Lincoln and Carmen Sceppa, Northeastern News,“How Has COVID-19 Affected Mental Health and Well-Being?”

July 28, 2020: Gary Young, Modern Healthcare,“Hospitals Can Transfer Patients’ Medical Debt to RIP Medical Debt, Regulators Say”

July 27, 2020: Brook Baker, Times of India,“‘Suspend patents on Covid-19 drugs in India to Ensure Accessibility & Affordability’”

July 23, 2020: Jennifer Huer, WBUR,“Parking Bans, Resident-Only Rules, And Social Distancing Complicate Beach Access”

July 22, 2020: Wendy Parmet, FOX 5 NY,“Legal Issues Around Coronavirus Vaccine Mandates”

July 18, 2020: Wendy Parmet, FiveThirtyEight,“When Does A Pandemic Start To Erode Civil Liberties?”

July 17, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Just Security,“Pandemic Politics: Race, Sex, and the Supreme Court”

July 14, 2020: Wendy Parmet, New York Times Magazine,“Why We’re Losing the Battle With Covid-19”

July 10, 2020:Leo Beletsky, Forbes, “We Desperately Need Safe Zones For Drug Users In This Pandemic”

July 9, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP,“Biden’s Commitment to Global Sharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology is a Step in the Right Direction, Must be Followed by Concrete Plans to Dismantle Dangerous Healthcare Nationalism”

July 9, 2020: Brook Baker, Common Dreams, “‘Step in the Right Direction,’ Say Healthcare Advocates as Biden Vows to Share Any Covid-19 Vaccine With the World”

July 5, 2020: Brook Baker, Voice of America,“Health Authorities Aim to Build Alternative to COVID-19 Nationalism”

July 1, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times,“Can You Be Forced to Quarantine or to Stay Home? Your Questions, Answered”

July 1, 2020: Brook Baker, L.A. Times,“How Secret Deals Could Keep A COVID-19 Drug Out Of Reach For Millions”

June 30, 2020: Margo Lindauer, Northeastern News,“COVID-19 Is Making Things Harder for Victims of Domestic Abuse. Here’s a Way to Help.”

June 30, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP, “In Addition to Outrageous Prices and Preferential Supply to the US only, Gilead’s Allowance for Compulsory Licenses in its Remdesivir License Needlessly Limits Supply”

June 30, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Brook Baker, Leo Beletsky, Jonathan Kahn, Richard Daynard, Wendy Parmet, and Michael Sinha, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, “Letter to Congress on WHO Withdrawal from Public Health, Law and International Relations Leaders”

June 30, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Human Rights at Home, “June Medical: Reason or Politics?”

June 29, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, The Atlantic, “What the Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Means”

June 29, 2020: Wendy Parmet, City & State New York,“How Do You Enforce a Quarantine?”

June 29, 2020: Brook Baker, Voice of America,“US Procures Almost Entire Supply of COVID-19 Drug”

June 29, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Boston News 5, “Travel Advisories Are Inconsistent Among Northeast States”

June 25, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Boston Globe, “Should Mass. Residents Be Worried About Tourists From Coronavirus Hotspots Importing More Illness?”

June 10, 2020: Wendy Parmet and Jeremy Paul, American Journal of Public Health, COVID-19: The First Posttruth Pandemic

June 11, 2020: Leo Beletsky, WHYY Radio, “Philly Pharmacies Reeling, Rebuilding After More Than a Third Were Looted.”

May 25, 2020: Brook Baker, Spotlight, “Op-ed: President Ramaphosa Should Support the COVID-19 IP Pool.”

May 13, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP, “Gilead Remdesivir Licenses: Half Measures Are Not Nearly Good Enough.”

May 8, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP,“Without a Global Approach to Deadly Inequities in Access to Possible COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines, Legislative “Fixes” Won’t Make us Safer.”

April 15, 2020: Brook Baker, Northeastern News, “Should Pharmaceutical Companies Give up Their Patent Protections to Find a Vaccine for COVID-19?”

April 9, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “America Has Conquered Plagues Before. We Can Do It Again.”

April 9, 2020: Wendy Parmet, WBUR's Morning Edition, “On Hubris, Isolationism And Distrust During The Pandemic.”

April 3, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP, “Expect a Wave of Pro-IP Proposals from Industry in the Wake of the COVID-19.”

March 31, 2020: Brook Baker, Erasing 76 Crimes, “Uganda: Activists Demand Access to Potential Covid-19 Drug.”

March 30, 2020: Brook Baker, infojustice, “Drug Companies are Running Scared – Let’s Make Them Run Faster.”

March 27, 2020: Brook Baker, Pharmalot, “Pressure Mounts to Widen Access to Medical Products That May Combat COVID-19.”

March 27, 2020: Brook Baker, Health Policy Watch, “European Parliament Members Urge Open Licensing For COVID-19 Products Financed Through EU Grants.”

March 25, 2020: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “Rationale for Supporting Costa Rica’s Proposal for Emergency COVID-19 Technology IP Pool for All Countries.”

March 20, 2020: Brook Baker, STAT, “AbbVie will Allow Generic Copies of its HIV Pill in Israel After the Government Approved a License.”

March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times,“With Coronavirus, ‘Health Care for Some’ Is a Recipe for Disaster.”

March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, AXIOS, “Trump Policies Could Scare Immigrants Away From Coronavirus Care.”

March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The American Independent, “Experts Say Officials Must Do More to Protect Detained Immigrants From Coronavirus.”

March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, USA Today, “Immigration Status Should Play No Role in Treatment for Coronavirus.”

March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students.”

March 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, WBUR's CommonHealth, “Mid Coronavirus Fears, Senators Call For Suspension Of Rule That Could Discourage Immigrants From Seeking Care.”

March 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Wired, ”The US Has a ‘Plan’ to Fight Coronavirus: You.”

March 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Fox News, “New Hampshire Man Ignored Advice to Stay Home Before Testing Positive for Coronavirus, Raises Self-Quarantine Questions.”

March 4, 2020: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “Trump’s Immigration Policies Will Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse.”

March 4, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Live Science, “The Government Has the Power to Shut Down Entire Cities. but Would That Stop Coronavirus?.”

March 3, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Fast Company, “What an Equitable Coronavirus Response Should Look Like.”

February 26, 2020: Wendy Parmet, News Announcement, “Professor Wendy Parmet Among Public Health and Law Experts Who Issue Guidelines for US Response to “Inevitable” Widespread Coronavirus Transmission.”

February 23, 2020: Wendy Parmet and Jeremy Paul, The Hartford Courant,“Fighting Coronavirus Means Relying on the Truth -- Not Political Fiction.”

February 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “How Long Can China’s Mass Quarantine Stave off a Coronavirus Pandemic?”

February 4, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Guardian, “Coronavirus: Could the US Government's Quarantine and Travel Ban Backfire?”

February 3, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The New Yorker, “The Wrong Way to Fight the Opioid Crisis.”

February 3, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “Why We Should Be Wary of an Aggressive Government Response to Coronavirus.”

January 31, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, SCOTUSblog, “Symposium: Will the Supreme Court Legitimate Pretext?”

September 20, 2019: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “The “Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019”: What’s Good, What’s Bad, and What Must be Improved.”

September 4, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Cognoscenti, “What Deporting Sick Immigrants Says About America.”

September 3, 2019: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “‘Treatment Facilities’ Aren’t What You Think They Are.”

August 24, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Time, “'Search For & Refuse All Deliveries.' Amid Trade War, Trump Urges USPS Crackdown on Fentanyl Trafficking From China.”

August 13, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs, “The Trump Administration’s New Public Charge Rule: Implications For Health Care & Public Health.”

July 26, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Boston Herald, “Mass. Medical Society Backs End to Religious Exemption for Vaccines.”

July 19, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Northeastern News, “Drug Overdose Deaths Are Down for the First Time in 30 Years. Is This the Turning Point of the Overdose Crisis?”

July 11, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Fox News, “Drug Dealers in North Carolina Can Now Be Charged With Murder If Someone Overdoses.”

June 21, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “The Absurd Theater of the Modern Cocaine Bust.”

June 14, 2019: Aziza Ahmed, The New York Times, “New York City Allocates $250,000 for Abortions, Challenging Conservative States.”

June 13, 2019: Leo Beletsky, NPR, “Federal Grants Restricted To Fighting Opioids Miss The Mark, States Say.”

June 6, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Hartford Courant,“The Problems of Living in a Post-Truth World.”

May 22, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Fortune, “'Missed Opportunity.' Warren's Opioid Plan Has a Major Blind Spot, Experts Say.”

April 24, 2019: Brook Baker, STAT,“A Commerce Department Report Causes a Stir Over Whether to Use Federal Law to Lower Drug Price.”

April 20, 2019: Leo Beletsky, NPR, “Prison For Forced Addiction Treatment? A Parent’s ‘Last Resort’ Has Consequences.”

April 17, 2019: Claudia Haupt, The Week in Health Law, “Promises and Perils.”

April 10, 2019: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “Can Officials Require Vaccinations Against Measles? a Century-Old Case May Give Them a Foothold.”

March 29, 2019: Leo Beletsky, KJZZ Radio Phoenix, “As Arizona Opioid Overdoses Spike, State Looks To Next Steps.”

March 26, 2019: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “New York Suburb Declares Measles Emergency, Barring Unvaccinated Children From Public.”

March 26, 2019: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “New York County, Declaring Emergency Over Measles, Seeks to Ban Unvaccinated From Public Places.”

March 12, 2019: Northeastern University School of Law, “Northeastern Law Top 10 for Health Care Law in 2020 US News Ranking.”

February 28, 2019: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “Gottlieb’s Threat of Federal Vaccine Mandates: Questionable Legality, Poor Policy.”

February 22, 2019: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “State Commission on Safe Consumption Sites Expected to Finalize Report by Next Week.”

February 21, 2019: Aziza Ahmed, Providence Journal, “Letter: Act Doesn't Allow Abortion Throughout Pregnancy.”

February 8, 2019: Brook Baker, HealthGap, “The Global Fund is Needlessly Undermining the Global Response to HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria with a Weak Replenishment Goal.”

February 6, 2019: Brook Baker, HealthGap, “Fact Checking Trump’s Drug Pricing Claims in State of the Union.”

February 6, 2019: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “Justice Department Sues Philadelphia Over Supervised Injection Facility that Aims to Prevent Fatal Drug Overdoses.”

January 18, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Northeastern News, “Opioid Addiction Is a Public Health Crisis. The Way We’re Talking About It Isn’t Helping.”

January 14, 2019: Aziza Ahmed, Bill of Health Blog, “Ethical Concerns of DNA Databases used for Crime Control.”

January 4, 2019: Margo Lindauer, Northeastern University School of Law, "Professor Margo Lindauer ’07 Named a Bellow Scholar."

January 3, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law, "AALS Honors Professor Wendy Parmet with Health Law Community Service Award."

December 19, 2018: Brook Baker, STAT, "Trump Administration Report Would Preclude Reclaiming Patents as a Way to Lower Drug Prices."
December 19, 2018: Brook Baker, Health GAP, "The Trump Administration’s New Green Paper is Full of Giveaways to Big Pharma."
December 19, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, "How Republicans Pivoted from the War on Drugs to Cutting Prison Sentences."
December 8, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Atlantic, "The Strongest Evidence Yet for a Highly Controversial Addiction Treatment."
December 7, 2018: Wendy Parmet, The V Word, "Immigrant Women's Health (Public Charge)."
November 30, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, "Mass. U.S. Attorney's Prescription Monitoring Raises Privacy Questions."
November 29, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Boston Globe, "US Attorney Issues Warning to Physicians Over Opioid Prescriptions."
November 29, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Boston Globe, "Panel is Charged with Reviewing State's 'Secret Courts.'"
November 29, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Mail, "Drug Overdose Deaths Soared 10% in 2017 Driven By Fentanyl Flooding the US From China."
November 28, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Mail, “Meth Hospitalizations Soar 245% in 10 Years: Surge in ER Visits Is Flying 'off the Radar' - but It's Hidden by the Opioid Epidemic.”
November 14, 2018: Brook Baker,infojustice,"MPP-AbbVie License on Glecaprevir and Pibrentasvir (G/P): Backtracking on Geographic Coverage but with Options for Oppositions, Compulsory Licenses, and Negotiated Territorial Expansion."
October 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WXXI News, "Social Stigma Is One Reason The Opioid Crisis Is Hard To Confront."
October 22, 2018: Leo Beletsky, San Diego Union Tribune, "Intricacies in Law Surrounding Overdose Death Prosecutions Compiled in New Playbook for Defense Attorneys."
October 15, 2018: Brook Baker, Intellectual Property Watch, “'The People’s Prescription': New Report Calls For Value Creation Instead Of Value Extraction In Pharmaceutical R&D."
October 8, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Philadelphia Tribune, "Injection Site Faces Criticism, Resistance."
October 4, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, Leo Beletsky, Richard Daynard, Claudia Haupt, New York Times, "The Senate Should Not Confirm Kavanaugh."
September 30, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Boston Globe, "Inside Our Secret Courts."
September 26, 2018: Patricia Illingworth, News@Northeastern, "If 'Truth Isn't Truth,' Then What Is It?"
September 17, 2018: Leo Beletsky, New York Times, “The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis.”
August 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Huffpost, "Safe Injection Sites Might Not Solve The Opioid Crisis, But They Won’t Make It Worse."
August 27, 2018: Richard Daynard, The Virgin Islands Consortium, "USVI Juries Deliver $113 Million Verdicts Against R.J. Reynolds To Families Of Deceased Newport Smokers."
August 15, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Gizmodo, "Skyrocketing Rates of Fentanyl Deaths Led to the Deadliest Year for Opioid Overdoses Ever."
August 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, "A Sliver of Hope: Analyzing Voluntary Licenses to Accelerate Affordable Access to Medicines."
July 24, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Appeal, “A Pennsylvania Man Survived an Overdose Only to Be Charged With Homicide.”
July 22, 2018: Jennifer Lea Huer and Wendy E. Parmet, Bill of Health - Harvard Law, “Introduction to “Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law.”
July 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, CNN, “Drug users on probation can be required to remain drug-free, court rules.”
July 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WBUR News, “Judges Can Require Drug Users On Probation To Remain Drug-Free, Court Rules.”
July 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice , “Wink, Wink: Pfizer agrees to roll back price hikes.”
July 12, 2018: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “Democrats Overstate Kavanaugh’s Writings on the Affordable Care Act.”
July 10, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Burlington Free Press, "Domestic violence: How an 'and' instead of an 'or' let man avoid court sanction.”
July 10, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, Herald Tribune,“MEDICAL Q&A: How medicine has changed since abortion became legal.”
July 6, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, “Misleading Ab”Use” of Percentages in Drug Price Escalation, infojustice.”
July 6, 2018: Leo Beletsky, NPR,“With More Opioid Use, People Are More Likely To Get Caught Up In The Justice System.”
July 1, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, The New York Times,“Bulwark Against an Abortion Ban? Medical Advances.”
June 23, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Marietta Times, “Needle exchange: Program proposal an attempt to prevent the spread of disease.”
June 22, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WHTC, “Opioid reclassification linked to increase in illegal online sales.”
June 13, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Scientific American,“Can Opioid Legislation Make a Dent in the National Epidemic?”
June 13, 2018: Leo Beletsky, EurekAlert,“US painkiller restriction linked to 'significant' increase in illicit online drug trading.”
June 6, 2018: Michael Pollastri, Northeastern News,“This Tropical Disease is Second Only to Malaria as a Parasitic Killer. So Why Haven’t You Heard of it?”
May 11, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Washington Post, “Under Trump Proposal, Lawful Immigrants Might Be Inclined To Shun Health Benefits.”
May 2, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Yale School of Medicine, “Involuntary Treatment for Substance Use Disorder in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: Ethical, Legal and Patient Care Considerations.”
July 24, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Appeal, "A Pennsylvania Man Survived an Overdose Only to Be Charged with Homicide."
July 22, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet and Jennifer Lea Huer, Bill of Health, "Introduction to Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law."
July 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, CNN, "Drug users can be required to remain drug-free, court rules."
July 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, "Wink, Wink: Pfizer agrees to roll back price hikes."
July 12, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet, NYT, "Democrats Overstate Kavanaugh's Writings on the Affordable Care Act."
July 10, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Burlington Free Press, "Domestic violence: How an 'and' instead of an 'or' let man avoid court sanction."
July 10, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, Herald-Tribune, "Medical Q&A: How medicine has changed since abortion became legal."
July 6, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, "Misleading 'use' of percentages in drug price escalation."
July 6, 2018: Leo Beletsky, NPR, "With More Opioid Use, People Are More Likely To Get Caught Up In The Justice System."
July 1, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, The New York Times, "Bulwark Against an Abortion Ban? Medical Advances."
June 23, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Marietta Times, "Needle exchange: Program proposal an attempt to prevent the spread of disease."
June 13, 2018: Leo Beletsky, STAT, "Can Opioid Legislation Make a Dent in the National Epidemic?"
June 6, 2018: Michael Pollastri, News@Northeastern, "This tropical disease is second only to malaria as a parasitic killer. So why haven't you heard of it?"
May 11, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet, The Washington Post, "Under Trump Proposal, Lawful Immigrants Might Be Inclined To Shun Health Benefits."
April 30, 2018: Leo Beletsky, COSSA 2018 Policy Conference and Social Science Advocacy Day,“Combatting the Opioid Epidemic Panel.”
April 27, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Week in Health Law,“Diseases of Despair (2) Healthcare Law and Policy” Podcast
April 24, 2018: Emily Spieler, CareForce Travelogues Screening Panel.
April 20, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet and Elisabeth Ryan, Health Affairs blog, "New Dangers For Immigrants And The Health Care System."
April 18, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Kaiser Health News, "Surgeon general wants naloxone widely on hand. Is this feasible?"
April 17, 2018: Leo Beletsky, STAT, "Nursing homes routinely refuse people on addiction treatment - which some experts say is illegal"
March 23, 2018: Brook Baker, law360, "Bayh-Dole Could Be A Drug Pricing Fix, If The Feds Want It"
March 22, 2018: Patricia Illingworth, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay, "Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights."
March 21, 2018: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, "How Opioid Lawsuit Money Could Help Solve the Epidemic."
March 2, 2018: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, "Are Safe Injection Facilities for Heroin Users a Step in the Right Direction?"
February 27, 2018: Gregory Curfman, Medpage Today, "'Hmm, Maybe I Don't Want an LVAD.'"
February 23, 2018: Matthew Miller, NPR, "Experts Say There's Little Connection Between Mental Health And Mass Shootings."
February 21, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet, The Daily Free Press, "Ed Markey Announces Push for Universal Flu Vaccine."
February 15, 2018: Leo Beletsky, In Justice Today, “The Biggest Winners in Trump Budget: The DEA and the War on Drugs.”
February 14, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Delmarva Now, “Countering opioid abuse: Bill would give parents more control over child’s treatment.”
February 14, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “How a Police Chief, a Governor and a Sociologist Would Spend $100 Billion to Solve the Opioid Crisis.”
February 14, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Vice, “Rhode Island Found a Way to Cut Post-Prison Overdose Deaths in Half.”
February 12, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Vox.com, “President Trump has been dangerously silent on this year’s deadly flu epidemic.”
February 12, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Globe Post, “America, We Have an Opioid Problem.”
February 7, 2018: Leo Beletsky, HuffPost, “FDA Releases Kratom Death Data, Undermines Its Own Claims About Drug’s Deadly Harms.”
February 5, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Kaiser Health News, “California To Drug Users: We’ll Pay For You To Test Your Dope.”
February 4, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Columbus Dispatch, “Death penalty is unjust for opioid addict.”
February 2, 2018: Gary Young, News@Northeastern, "Why We Should Take Amazon's Ambitions to Disrupt Healthcare Seriously."
February 1, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Bangor Daily News, “Cannabis capitalists exploit loopholes by ‘gifting’ the drug.”
January 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, CBS News, “The Backstory of Trump’s Foundering Opioid Fight.”
January 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Spokesman-Review, “Cannabis Capitalists Exploit Loopholes by ‘Gifting’ the Drug.”
January 30, 2018: Richard Daynard, USA Today, “Subpoenas Flying in Tony Gwynn Tobacco Case as Mr. Padre Documentary Premieres.”
January 25, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Wendy Parmet & Elisabeth Ryan, Harvard Health Blog, “Involuntary treatment for substance use disorder: A misguided response to the opioid crisis.”
January 24, 2018: Public Health Advocacy Institute, “PHAI Submits Comment Opposing Proposed School Food Nutrition Rollbacks.”
January 24, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, presenter, Workshop on Regulating Family, Sex & Gender, “Dead but Not Disabled: The Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition in the AIDS Response.”
January 22, 2018: Leo Beletsky, In Justice Today, “Death by Prosecution: Was There a Bigger Player in Drug Case Involving Man Who Killed Himself After Federal Indictment?”
January 20, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Vox.com, “Here’s How the Government Shutdown Ends."
January 18, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs Blog, “Immigration and Health Care Under the Trump Administration.”
January 17, 2018: Patricia Illingworth, MetroMBA, “Northeastern Professors Talk Dangers of Aetna-CVS Mega Merger”
January 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, “Rescinding Federal Marijuana Enforcement Guidelines Could Spark ‘Chaos’”
January 15, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Slate, “The Opioid Crisis Is Blurring the Legal Lines Between Victim and Perpetrator”
January 12, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Vox.com, “Why a Better Economy Won’t Stop the Opioid Epidemic,”
January 10, 2018: Richard G. Wamai and Michael Pollastri, News@Northeastern, "Why You Should Care About Rare Tropical Diseases,"
January 9, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “Forced Rehab Isn’t the Solution,”
January 8, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Governing.com, “Drug Overdose Deaths Soar Nationally But Plateau in Some States,”
January 8, 2018: Gary Young, HealthExec, "Tax-exempt hospitals haven't greatly increased community benefit spending,"
January 4, 2018: Leo Beletsky, presenter, The Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, “Using the Law and Its Enforcement to Address the Overdose Crisis: Emerging Trends and Implications,”
January 2018: Gregory Curfman and Leo Beletsky, JAMA Internal Medicine, “Benefits, Limitations, and Value of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids,”

December 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Medical Press, “To address opioid crisis, researches call for focus on root causes of suffering”

December 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, guest, The Robert Scott Bell Show, “Finally – Someone Gets It Right”

December 22, 2017: Kara Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, “The New Gene Tool Crispr Sparks a History War”

December 21, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “How the GOP tax bill could lead to more opioid overdoses”

December 21, 2017: Leo Beletsky, American Journal of Public Health, “Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants”

December 20, 2017: Public Health Advocacy Institute, “Developing State Policy Recommendations for Safe Drinking Water Procurement in Child Care Centers and Schools”

December 12, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Politico, “Health IT Shines at White House Event”

December 8, 2017: Jennifer Huer, Public Health Law Watch, "Why is Congress not prioritizing health care for children and other vulnerable populations?"

December 8, 2017: Kristin Madison, News@Northeastern, “How the CVS-Aetna merger could improve—or undermine—healthcare”

December 6, 2017: Emily Spieler, Rutgers University Law Review, “(Re)Assessing the Grand Bargain: Compensation for Work Injuries in the United States, 1900-2017”

December 6, 2017: Gregory Curfman, American Heart Journal, “A ‘shocking’ new code status”

December 6, 2017: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “What Happens if the Government Shuts Down? Faculty Experts Explain”

November 22, 2017: Brook Baker, panelist, 1^st World Conference on Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, “Achieving SDGs: Use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Initiatives including in Trade Agreements”

November 20, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap, “Expanding Access to Life-Saving Medicines: What Government Must Do Next to Continue Reforming Drug Patents in South Africa”

November 18, 2017: Gregory Curfman, The Wall Street Journal, “Outcome Health Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Employers”

November 16, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Bill of Health, “The Week in Health Law” Podcast

November 15, 2017: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “Baker Calls For Improvements to Opioid Treatment and Prescribing”

November 10, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Commonwealth Magazine, “Addressing inmate addiction must be a priority”

November 8, 2017: Leo Beletsky, In Justice Today, “Despite ‘Public Health’ Messaging, Law Enforcement Increasingly Prosecutes Overdoses as Homicides”

November 3, 2017: Gregory Curfman, Public Health Law Watch, “Generic Drugs and the PTAB”

October 30, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Blog Talk Radio, “Law and order despite war on drugs”

October 30, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, presenter, Health Law Policy, Bioethics and Biotechnology Workshop, “’Dead But Not Disabled': A Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition”

October 29, 2017: Emily Spieler, Business Insurance, “Safety act expanded employer responsibilities”

October 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Health Data Management, “Prescription drug monitoring programs come under fire”

October 24, 2017: Brook Baker, Northeastern University Law Review Forum, “New Intellectual Property Strategy Enhancing Access to Medicines Announced in South Africa”

October 18, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Cut, “The Opioid Epidemic Is Changing Too Fast for Any Solutions to Stick”

October 11, 2017: Elisabeth J. Ryan, Public Health Law Watch, “Smart Gun Technology and the Potential to Save Lives”

October 11, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Berkeley Beacon, “Homelessness on Campus”

October 10, 2017: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “How Massachusetts Deals With Opioid Addicts: Jail Or Rehab?”

October 5, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, “Drug War Dragnets and Trans Health: Patient Privacy in the Age of Prescription Monitoring Programs”

October 5, 2017: Jason Potter, Public Health Law Watch, “Navigating Minor Consent Laws Toward Confidential PrEP Access for Adolescents”

October 4, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, Public Health Law Watch, “Making America Healthy Again: Analyzing Trump’s Take on the Social Determinants of Health”

September 29, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, “American Beverage Association v. San Francisco: When the First Amendment Jeopardizes Public Health”

September 17, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers”

September 13, 2017: Stephen Intille, News@Northeastern, “What We’ve Gained—And Lost—After A Decade With Smartphones”

September 11, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, Texas Law Review, "Abortion in a Post-Truth Moment: A Response to Erwin Chemerinsky and Michele Goodwin"

August 30, 2017: Leo Beletsky,KALW, "Do San Francisco police scare drug users away from needle exchange sites?"

August 28, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Chicago Tribune, "As more heroin is mixed with fentanyl, opioid crisis turns even deadlier"

August 21, 2017: Brook Baker, STAT, "Pharma industry ‘getting away with murder’ abroad thanks to Trump’s policies"

August 16, 2017: Leo Beletsky and Elisabeth Ryan, The Crime Report, "The Wrong Path: Involuntary Treatment and the Opioid Crisis"

August 15, 2017: Elisabeth Ryan, Health Affairs blog, "The 'Tanning Tax' Is A Public Health Success Story"

August 11, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, Health Affairs blog, "Making American Healthy Again: Analyzing Trump's Take On The Social Determinants Of Health"

August 9, 2017: Gregory Curfman, News@Northeastern, "Leading Voice on Health Policy Joins Northeastern Law Center"

August 9, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, News@Northeastern, "Gene Editing Embryos May Lead to 'Pursuit of a Conception of Perfection'"

August 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Reuters, "Underground safe haven keeps drug users off street, may save lives"

August 7, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, "Can giving inmates access to addiction medication help ease the opioid crisis?"

August 4, 2017: Leo Beletsky, ABA Journal, "State databases track prescriptions of certain drugs considered addictive or dangerous"

August 4, 2017: Leo Beletsky, reason.com, "Researchers Highlight the Government's Complicity in Heroin Deaths"

August 3, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vox, "The opioid epidemic, explained"

August 2, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Marshall Project, "Guess Who's Tracking Your Prescription Drugs?"

August 1, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vox, "How to stop the deadliest drug overdose crisis in American history"

July 18, 2017: Brook Baker, New York Times, "Escaping Big Pharma's Pricing with Patent-Free Drugs"

July 14, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, "Worse than jail: Addicts civilly committed by DOC abused them and failed to treat them"

July 13, 2017: Wendy Parmet, presenter, International Congress on Law and Mental Health in Prague, "Access to Healthcare for Refugees: International Needs, International Rights"

July 13, 2017: Brook Baker, Techdirt, "Canada Capitulates: Supreme Court Throws Away Government's Great Pharma Patent Victory"

July 11, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, ACS Blog, "Abortion and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Mexico City Policy"

July 3, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap, "Canada Blinks in Face of US/Pharma Pressure - Supreme Court Adopts Wink-Wink Patent Utility Rule"

June 30, 2017: Brook Baker, FirstPost, "US pressure on India to grant more patents on pharma products 'appalling', say health advocates"

June 25, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, "Better Care Act Targets Immigrants"

June 23, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap blog, "Trump's Draft Executive Order on Pharmaceutical Pricing: Dangerous Medicine for Consumers at Home and Abroad"

June 22, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, "GOP health care bill would make the world's worst drug crisis even worse"

June 22, 2017: The Center for Health Policy and Law, News at Northeastern, "What's Next for Healthcare Reform?"

June 21, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap blog, "Trump's Drug Pricing Executive Order is Likely to be an Unfettered Giveaway to Big Pharma: Insights from 2017 Special 301 Report"

June 14, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Symposium, "Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: Policy, Politics and Patient Care"

June 14, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, "Newtown: A Public Health Law Perspective"

June 10, 2017: Jennifer Huer, presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, "Balancing Patient Privacy Against the Importance of Collecting Determinants of Health Data"

June 9, 2017: Aziza Ahmed: presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, "Science, Crime, and Reproduction: The Troubling Case of Purvi Patel"

June 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, "America's Favorite Antidote: The Role of Punishment as an Overdose Prevention Tool"

June 9, 2017: Wendy Parmet, presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, "Applying the First Amendment to Physician Speech: A Public Health Approach"

June 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, "'A drop in the bucket': FDA moves to kick prescription painkiller off the market"

June 5, 2017: Wendy Parmet, guest, 'The Week in Health Law’ Podcast

June 2017: Patricia Illingworth and Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs BookMarks, "The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and The Case for Global Solidarity"

May 31, 2017: Leo Beletsky, course contributor, edX, "The Opioid Crisis in America"

May 30, 2017: Wendy Parmet and Jennifer Huer, Bill of Health, "New Blog Symposium: Between Complacency and Panic - Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases"

May 27, 2017: Richard Daynard, NYT Opinion, "The Risks of U.S. Inaction on Climate Change"

May 24, 2017: Brook Baker, Intellectual Property Watch, "Beyond the Obvious - Direct and Indirect Territorial Coverage of MPP/ViiV Voluntary License for Dolutegravir"

May 22, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Crain's New York Business, "Will stepping up drug-dealer arrests help alleviate the opioid crisis?"

May 18, 2017: Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, "Physicians, Firearms, and Free Speech - Overturning Florida's Firearm-Safety Gag Rule"

May 17, 2017: Wendy Parmet, speaker, Lahey Clinic Hospital's Medical Ethics Lecture Series

April 18, 2017: Wendy Parmet, panelist, The Petrie-Flom Center's panel discusion and film screening, "Healing in the Wake of Community Violence: Lessons from Newtown and Beyond"

April 18, 2017: Leo Beletsky, BBC News, "Officers rue the return of US 'war on drugs'"

April 12, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, Daily Princetonian, "2017-2018 LAPA Fellows include alumnus, health law specialist"

April 11, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, The Huffington Post, "How 'America First' Undermines Our Health"

April 10, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, The Petrie-Flom Center's Health Law Workshop

April 7, 2017: Brook Baker, panelist, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal's "Inside the 'Global Super Court': Examining and Reshaping Investor-State Arbitration" Conference

April 6, 2017: Brook Baker, Madhyam, "Eli Lilly's ISDS Patent Claim against Canada Defeated"

April 5, 2017: Leo Beletsky, WBUR CommonHealth, "Massachusetts Medical Society Trustees Ask Members to Support Safe Injection Facilities for Drug Users"

April 1, 2017: Brook Baker, speaker, 23rd Annual Global Development Conference at Harvard University

March 22, 2017: Kristin Madison, news@Northeastern, "Should Employers Be Allowed to Require Genetic Test Results?"

March 17, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, news@Northeastern, "Understanding the Impact of the Proposed Healthcare Reform Bill"

March 16, 2017: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, "Understanding the Complex Issue of Healthcare Reform"

March 11, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, "Repeal, Replace and Leave Out Immigrants: The American Health Care Act's Impact on Immigrants"

March 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, "The Opioid Crisis Would Probably Get Worse Under Trumpcare"

March 4, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Vox, "Trump has set the US up to botch a global health crisis"

March 3, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, Health Affairs Blog, "Reproductive Health Under Assault"

March 1, 2017: Brook Baker, Nature, "Hepatitis C drugs re-energize global fight over patents"

February 23, 2017: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, "Healthcare & Immigration | Professors: Providing healthcare for non-US citizens a 'moral obligation'"

February 22, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs Blog, "Should Government Officials Be Held Responsible For Failing To Protect Health?"

February 11, 2017: Brook Baker, speaker, Student Global AIDS Campaign's National Conference

February 6, 2017: Brook Baker, STAT, "Dear President Trump: Your big idea on drug pricing is half-baked"

February 2, 2017: Wendy Parmet et al, NPR Health News, "CDC Seeks Controversial New Quarantine Powers To Stop Outbreaks"

January 28, 2017: Brook Baker, The Lancet, "The battle for access to medicines for all"

January 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, "The $4,500 injection to stop heroin overdoses"

January 23, 2017: Wendy Parmet et al, The New York Times, "Why the CDC's Power to Quarantine Should Worry Us"

January 20, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, "The $4,500 Injection to Stop Heroin Overdoses"

January 2017: Wendy Parmet and Patricia Illingworth author The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity (NYU Press)

January 20, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, panelist, Boston University School of Law's "Critical Race Theory and the Health Sciences" Symposium.

January 14, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Beast, "'Safer' Oxycontin Caused Thousands of Heroin Deaths, Researchers Find"

December 20, 2016: Wendy Parmet et al, Health Security, "Federal Powers to Control Communicable Conditions: Call for Reform to Assure National Preparedness and Promote Global Security"

December 11, 2016: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, "Public Health under the Trump Administration"

December 6, 2016: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, "Worsening the Crisis: The opioid epidemic could get even worse if Trump repeals Obamacare"

November 30, 2016: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, "3Qs: What’s Next for ‘Obamacare’ under President Trump?"

November 28, 2016: Leo Beletsky, news@Northeastern, "Marijuana in Massachusetts, What Happens Now That It's Legal?"

November 18, 2016: Brook Baker, Yes! Magazine, "How a Battle Over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the TPP"

November 14, 2016: Leo Beletsky, Boston Magazine, "Public Health Experts Have Mixed Feelings About Legal Marijuana in Massachusetts"

November 10, 2016: Wendy Parmet, Boston Herald, "Kalter: Obamacare Likely to Face Long, Gradual Revamp Under Trump"

November 9, 2016: Kristin Madison, Health Affairs, "Addressing Risks of Employer Involvement in Creating a Culture of Health”

November 1, 2016: Brook Baker, STAT, "Novartis Has a History of Charging High Prices for Drugs in Colombia"

October 14, 2016: Wendy Parmet, "Parmet, in Collaboration with Yale Law School and Others, Submits Comments on the CDC’s Proposed Quarantine Rules"

October 4, 2016: Richard Daynard, The Boston Globe, "Make Warnings on Cigarette Packs Scary, Health Groups Say"

October 1, 2016: David Rochefort, "Rochefort Co-Authors Analysis of ACA Implementation in Rhode Island"

September 19, 2016: Brook Baker, The Nation, "Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS"

September 19, 2016: Brook Baker, BloombergMarkets, "How Big Pharma Pressures States to Pay for Pricey Pills"

September 10, 2016: Wendy Parmet, YOUR HEALTH Radio, "Gun Violence, the First Amendment and Medical Advice"

August 15, 2016: Leo Beletsky, POZ Magazine, "On the Safe Side"

August 12, 2016: Leo Beletsky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "DEA Is Cracking down on Physicians Who Overprescribe Pills"

July 20, 2016: Brook Baker, The Wire, "Risky Medicine: Why FDI in India’s Generic Drugs Industry Could be a Bad Idea"

June 29, 2016, Aziza Ahmed, news@Northeastern, "3Qs: Supreme Court Strikes down Part of Texas Abortion Law"

June 7, 2016, Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, "Law Professor Wins Prestigious Teaching Award"

May 27, 2016, Leo Beletsky, CBS News' The Crime Report, "The New Politics of the "War on Drugs""

May 23, 2016, Richard Daynard, The New York Times, "Tony Gwynn’s Family Sues Tobacco Industry, Seeking Recourse Over Fatal Habit"

May 19, 2016, Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, "Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida — The First Amendment, Physician Speech, and Firearm Safety"

April 11, 2016, Brook Baker, news@Northeastern, "Northeastern Researchers Examine the Zika Pandemic"

April 8, 2016, Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health Podcast, "The Week in Health Law"

April 5, 2016, Brook Baker, Nature News and Comment, "What New GSK Patent Policy Means for the Developing World"

March 23, 2016, Leo Beletsky, Vice.com, "Calling the Cops After Your Friend Overdoses Can Still Get You Arrested"

March 22, 2016, Wendy Parmet, WalletHub, "2016’s Fattest Cities in America"

March 17, 2016, Kristin Madison, HealthAffairs Blog, "The EEOC’s Role In Reshaping Wellness Programs"

March 9, 2016, Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairs Blog, "The Curious Case Of The Docs Versus The Glocks: Firearms, The First Amendment, And Physician Speech"

March 8, 2016, Brook Baker, PLOS Medicine, "Trans-Pacific Partnership Provisions in Intellectual Property, Transparency, and Investment Chapters Threaten Access to Medicines in the US and Elsewhere"

March 2, 2016, Leo Beletsky, news@Northeastern, "Are Safe Injection Facilities for Heroin Users a Step in the Right Direction ?"

February, 2016, Brook Baker, Law360, "Experts Get Voice In Lilly's $370M Canadian Patent Fight"

February 25, 2016: Leo Beletsky, NPR's Health News, "Ithaca's Plan To Open A Safe Site For Heroin Users Faces Legal Hurdles"

February 11, 2016: Leo Beletsky and Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairsBlog, "Expanding Coercive Treatment Is The Wrong Solution For The Opioid Crisis"

February 8, 2016: Leo Beletsky, VICE, "Why Isn't America Doing the One Thing That Would Reduce Heroin Deaths Right Now ?"

January 15, 2016: Martha Davis, Human Rights at Home, "Whole Woman's Health v. Cole: The Face of "Human Dignity""

December 2, 2015: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, "Ebola Crisis Passes, but Questions on Quarantines Persist"

November 10, 2015: Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairs Blog, "Trade, Health, And Tobacco Exceptionalism: The TPP Tobacco Carve-Out"

November 4, 2015: Leo Beletsky, VICE, "Can Locking Up Pill-Pushing Doctors Put an End to Prescription Drug Abuse?"

October 12, 2015: Brook Baker, Infojustice, "LDCs Be Damned: USTR and Big Pharma seeks to eviscerate Least Developed Countries’ Insulation From Pharmaceutical Monopolies"

October 6, 2015: Brook Baker, Science Insider, "Trade Agreement Praised and Panned"

September 22, 2015: Leo Beletsky, New York Daily News, "Could Safe Injection Sites for IV Drug Users Be in the Works for NYC ?"

September 7, 2015: Brook Baker, Infojustice, "Will the U.S. Create Barriers to LDCs’ Future Access to Medicines?"

September 1, 2015: Leo Beletsky, American Journal of Public Health, "Police Encounters Among Needle Exchange Clients in Baltimore: Drug Law Enforcement as a Structural Determinant of Health"

July 23, 2015: Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, "Shifting Vaccination Politics — The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California"

July 1, 2015: Wendy Parmet, Yahoo! Health, "What California’s Strict New Vaccination Law Means for the Rest of the Country"

June 26, 2015: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, "3Qs: Supreme Court upholds healthcare law for second time"

June 25, 2015: Wendy Parmet, New England Cable News, "Reaction Pours in on Supreme Court's Obamacare Decision"

June 25, 2015: Wendy Parmet, WGBH News, "Obamacare: Massachusetts Provides SCOTUS The Basis For Upholding Law It Inspired"

June 25, 2015: Wendy Parmet, Human Rights at Home Blog, "Health Care: Here to Stay"

June 15, 2015: Leo Beletsky, news@Northeastern, "Legal Experts: Law Enforcement Officers Should be Authorized to Administer Overdose Antidote"

May 28, 2015: Richard Daynard, The Boston Globe, "These 26 states won’t let you sue McDonald’s for making you fat. The surprising consequence of banning obesity lawsuits."

May 13, 2015: Kristin Madison, Health Affairs Blog, "The ACA, The ADA, And Wellness Program Incentives"

April 30, 2015: Chris Banthin, PHAI, The Boston Globe, "The Plight of the Smoking Man"

March 26, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, "Health Care for Immigrants — Implications of Obama's Executive Action"

March 26, 2015: PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court

March 215, 2015: Beletsky Teams with UCSD and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte to Promote Prevention of HIV in Mexico

March 10, 2015: U.S. News & World Report ranks NUSL #17 for health care law.

March 19, 2015: Professor Brook Baker, Harvard University's Health and Human Rights Journal, "Brook Baker on Intellectual Property Rights, Free Trade, and Access to Medicines"

March 18, 2015: Professor Leo Beletsky, Huffington Post Politics, "As Heroin Deaths Skyrocket, Prescription Monitoring Programs May Do More Harm"

February 20, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairs Blog, "In Regulating E-Cigarettes, No Easy Fix For The FDA"

February 6, 2015: Professor Martha Davis, Human RIghts at Home, "Vaccinations and Human Rights, American Style"

February 3, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, Harvard Law's Bill of Health, "Vaccine Mandates: Second Circuit Reaffirms their Constitutionality"

February 2, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, Huffington Post, "Rand Paul's Vaccine Comments Are Latest Chapter In 136-Year-Old Debate"

January 30, 2015: Professor Brook Baker, Express Pharma, "Opinion: Prof Brook K Baker on the Impact of US Pressure to Change India’s IP Laws"

January 16, 2015: Professor Brook Baker, TheBodyPRO.com, "The Cynical Connectedness of Gilead's Hepatitis C Pricing and Anti-Diversion Policies"

December 30, 2014: Professor Richard Daynard, Daily Business Review, "There's More to Tobacco Cases Than Engle" (subscription required)

October 27, 2014: Professor Wendy Parmet, WGBH, "Ebola Outbreak: "The Ethics of Mandatory Quarantines"

October 26, 2014: Professor Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, "The Flu, TB and Now Ebola: A Rare Legal Remedy Returns"

October 8, 2014: Professor Brook Baker,The Wall Street Journal, "Will a US-India Working Group do the Bidding of the Pharma Industry?"

October 7, 2014: Northeastern University Launches JD/MPH to Meet Urban Health Challenges

July 31, 2014: Professor Kara Swanson, The Atlantic, "Banks of Blood and Sperm"

July 20, 2014: Professor Richard Daynard, Reuters, "RJ Reynolds' $23-Billion Punitive Damage Award Unlikely to Stand"

June 01, 2014: Professor Kara Swanson, The Boston Globe, "The Trouble with Organ Banking"

April 22, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, "Massachusetts Limits the Use of the Potent Painkiller Zohydro"

April 15, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, "US Judge Blocks Mass. Ban on Painkiller"

April 9, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky, MedPage Today, "Naloxone 'Stigma' a Barrier to Prescribing?"

March 17, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky: The New York Times: "A Drug that Should be Easier to Get"

February 7, 2014: Professor Richard Daynard: The Washington Post: "Experts Increasingly Contemplate End of Smoking"

February 07, 2014: Professor Brook Baker: National Public Radio: "Maker Of $1,000 Hepatitis C Pill Looks To Cut Its Cost Overseas"

January 24, 2014: Professor Brook Baker: Delhi Science Forum: "South African Patients Need our Solidarity"

September 18, 2013: Cara Wilking (PHAI): Huffington Post: “Legal Tools to Stop Junk Food Marketing to Children”

August 29, 2013: Cara Wilking (PHAI): TIME: “Forget the Food: Fast Food Ads Aimed at Kids Feature Lots of Giveaways”

August 14, 2013: Professor Wendy Parmet: The New England Journal of Medicine: "Holes in the Safety Net — Legal Immigrants’ Access to Health Insurance”

July 25, 2013: Professor Leo Beletsky: Huffington Post: “We Can Fight This Feeling: The Loss of Cory Monteith and How We Can Prevent Future Overdose Fatalities”

June 26, 2013: Professor Wendy Parmet: Law360: “BigLaw Attys Praise High Court's Gay Marriage Rulings"

June 26, 2013: Professor Aziza Ahmed: Huffington Post: “USAID v. AOSI: A Victory for Sex Workers and Feminist Allies”

June 21, 2013: Professor Leo Beletsky: Huffington Post: “Beyond the Anti-Prostitution Pledge: The Public Health Buck Does Not Stop Here”

May 24, 2012: Law Faculty Awarded Four Interdisciplnary Research Grants
To celebrate its inaugural year, the Northeastern University Program on Health Policy and Law awarded $20,000 in grants to four interdisciplinary research projects on health policy and law.

January 5, 2012: In a case filed by Health Law Advocates and argued by Professor Wendy Parmet, the Sumpreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a state law blocking legal immigrants' access to the Commonwealth Care health insurance program violated the Massachusetts constitution. Find out more through the national media coverage.