Clinical Faculty In the News

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Check out our clinical faculty’s comments in the media, op-eds and more.

Recent Press and Announcements:

October 21, 2023: Professor Richard Daynard, The New York Times, “From Bush v. Gore to ‘Stop the Steal’: Kenneth Chesebro’s Long, Strange Trip.”
October 10, 2023: Professor Margaret Burnham, Northeastern Global News, “Margaret Burnham is 2023 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities Honoree.”
August 15, 2023: Professor Margo Lindauer, Northeastern Global News,“What Is a Conservatorship? Michael Oher, Britney Spears and the Complicated Power Dynamics of the Legal Arrangement.”
July 27, 2023: Professor Margo Lindauer, Northeastern Global News, “Kevin Spacey’s Acquittal on Sexual Assault Charges Will Have ‘Chilling Effect’ on Other Victims Coming Forward, Legal Expert Says.“
August 1, 2023: Professor Margaret Burnham, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Margaret Burnham Honored with Mass Humanities Governor’s Award.”
June 16, 2023: Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, Northeastern Global News, “Now That He Is Indicted, Will Donald Trump Get a Speedy Trial or Push for Delays?”
June 15, 2023: Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Study Finds Springfield Race Riot Site Meets Criteria To Be National Park
May 30, 2023: Andrew Rainer, PHAI, Law360, “R.J. Reynolds Gets Partial Reversal Of $17.5M Verdict.”
June 1, 2023: Professor Richard Daynard, CommonWealth, “A Race to Keep Up – Or to the Bottom? Lottery Bets Big on $50 Scratch Ticket, Online Games.”
May 19, 2023: Professor Richard Daynard, Northeastern Global News, “Ads for Sports Betting Have Been More Effective Than the Original Cigarette Campaigns, Northeastern Expert Says.”
May 11, 2023: Professor Mark Gottlieb ’93, Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), The Daily Mail, “Massachusetts Court Upholds $37 Million Payout to Woman Who Said She Developed Cancer When She Switched From Marlboro Red to Marlboro Light Because She Thought They Were Safer (But They Are Just as Deadly).”
May 9, 2023: Professor Richard Daynard, Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), WBUR News “Mass. High Court Awards $37 Million in Cancer Suit Against Tobacco Maker Philip Morris.”
May 9, 2023: Professor Richard Daynard, Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), The Boston Globe, “SJC Rrules Philip Morris USA Must pay $37 Million to Newton Woman Who Developed Brain Cancer from Smoking.”
May 3, 2023: Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, Northeastern Global News, “Can Florida Legally Expand the Death Penalty To Convicted Child Rapists?”
April 21, 2023: Professor Margaret Burnham, Los Angeles Times, “Professor Margaret Burnham Wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Dedicates Award to Her Parents.”
April 20, 2023: Professor Mark Gottlieb ’93, “Massachusetts To Receive $41 Million in Multi-state Settlement With Juul.”
April 20, 2023: Professor Margaret Burnham, Northeastern Global News, “Professor Margaret Burnham Receives Northeastern’s Excellence in Research and Creativity Award.”
April 12, 2023: Professor Mark Gottlieb, Mass.gov Press Release, “AG’s Office Reaches $462M Multistate Settlement With Juul, Secures $41M for Massachusetts.”
March 31, 2023:  Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, Northeastern Global News, “Trump Indictment Could Set in Motion a Years-long Process. Here Are Three Legal Tools He Could Use To Delay Proceedings.”
March 31, 2023: Professor Mark Gottlieb, The Guardian, “Should We Ban the Purchase of Cigarettes for Life? A US Town Is Trying.”
March 24, 2023: Professors Richard Daynard and Mark Gottlieb, Milford Daily News, “Launch of Online Betting Creates Push for ‘Public Health Approach’ To Gambling Addiction.”
March 16, 2023: Professor Mark Gottlieb, WBZ News, “Impacts on Poor Cited as Gambling Expansion Continues.”
April 6, 2023: Professor Margaret Burnham, The New York Review, “Pulitzer Prize-Winner Eric Foner Offers High Praise for Burnham’s New Book in the New York Review of Books.”
March 2023: CRRJ News Announcement, “Posthumous Pardon Hearing To Be Held in Joe James Case.”
February 27, 2023: Katie Sandson, Northeastern Global News, “‘Us History of Enslavement’ Part of Litmus Test for Black Reparations, Experts at Northeastern Conference in Oakland Say.”
February 22, 2023: Professor Margaret Burnham, Los Angeles Times, “’By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners’ Nominated for LA Times Book Prize.”
January 31, 2023: Professor Mark Gottlieb, WCVB, ”Sports Betting Begins Today in Massachusetts.”
January 20, 2023: Northeastern Law’s Prisoners’ Rights Clinic, “Bristol County Man Sentenced to Life in Prison as Habitual Offender Denied Parole Request.”
January 20, 2023: Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Morgan Lewis, “Restoring Justice and Setting the Record Straight.”
December 12, 2022: Professor Margaret Burnham, The New York Times, Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941.”

December 6, 2022: Professor Richard Daynard, The Hill, “We Need Punitive Damage Awards to Protect Public Health.” 
October 18, 2022: Professor Margaret Burnham, The New York Times, “The U.S. Thinks ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’ It Already Has.”
October 15, 2022: Professor Margaret Burnham, C-SPAN, “Q&A with Margaret Burnham, “By Hands Now Known”.”
October 4, 2022: Professor Margaret Burnham, The New Yorker, “Briefly Noted: By Hands Now Known.”
September 27, 2022: Professor Margaret Burnham, NPR’s “Fresh Air,” “Law Professor Unearths Cases of Racial Violence from the Jim Crow Era.”
September 21, 2022: Hemanth Gundavaram, Cape Cod Times, “Why Immigration Reform Has Been So Elusive Over the Years.”
September 21 , 2022: Professor Margaret Burnham, The New York Times, “Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides.”
October 17, 2022: Patricia Garin, DigBoston,“Judgment on the Chopping Block in Massachusetts.”
September 21, 2022: Margaret Burnham, The New York Times, “Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides.”
September 7, 2022: Mark Gottlieb, NBC Morning News Now, “Juul to Pay Nearly $440 Million to Settle States’ Teen Vaping Probe.”
August 15, 2022: Richard Daynard and Mark Gottlieb, The Boston Globe, “Massachusetts Makes a Losing Bet on Gambling.”
July 8, 2022: Margo Lindauer, News@Northeastern, “As a Female Trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell Is Not an Aberration.”
June 8, 2022, Margaret Burnham, The New York Times, “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America.”
March 27, 2022: Richard Daynard, CommonWealth, “Scientists Object to Inclusion in Globe’s Philip Morris Ad.”
February 8, 2022: Mark Gottlieb, The Alabama Baptist, “Gambling Ads, Interest Increase Ahead of Super Bowl.”
February 7, 2022: Mark Gottlieb, The Berkshire Eagle“Relentless Wave of Gambling Ads Fueling Calls for Regulation.”
February 2, 2022: Mark Gottlieb, MassLive“Relentless Ad Wave Fueling Sports Betting Sector.”
October 2021: Richard Daynard, Voices in Vulnerability Podcast, “Human Behavior, Legal Doctrine and Policy Design.”