April 29, 2022
Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Geneva Health Filesthat a negative precedent is being set with respect to transparency for public resources spent in procuring COVID-19 therapeutics: “Not only has the world allowed biopharmaceutical companies to maintain monopoly control over the supply, price, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, it has also consistently allowed them to achieve their profiteering under a veil of secrecy.”
April 27, 2022
“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.”
April 27, 2022
Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program is delighted to welcome Irina Gott as a teaching professor.
April 27, 2022
Andrew Haile has been appointed an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University School of Law, effective July 1, 2022.
April 27, 2022
Professor Michael Meltsner’s new novel, Mosaic: Who Paid For The Bullet? (Quid Pro Books, 2022), tells the story of a 1960s murder of a charismatic woman doctor who courted danger trying to dismantle a racially segregated healthcare system in a large Southern city.
April 26, 2022
“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.
April 25, 2022
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.
April 22, 2022
Professors Jeremy Paul, David Philips and Blaine Saito weigh in on the congressional stock trading debate.
April 22, 2022
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.
April 21, 2022
Dr. Deborah A. Jackson has joined Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as managing director.
April 20, 2022
"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.
April 20, 2022
“This decision ties the CDC’s hands at a time when we still do not know what the next few months will bring in terms of the pandemic and new strains,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Financial Times. “It is really important the administration pushes back.”