March 07, 2022
“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.
March 07, 2022
“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.”
March 04, 2022
What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society? Professor Wendy Parmet writes about the fragility of American public health in the March issue of Scientific American.
March 04, 2022
“There are not yet good systems for providing vaccines in humanitarian and conflict situations,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law. “The influx of large populations living in crowded conditions will result in increased transmission but little protection.”
March 03, 2022
Representing Northeastern Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), Rachael Chen ’23 and Henry Gaylord ’23 were awarded the best brief at the 2021 Northeastern Regional Thomas Tang Moot Court competition, which was held virtually on October 29, 2021.
March 03, 2022
Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), has been awarded two research grants by the Anti-Monopoly Fund of the Economic Security Project (ESP). He is the only researcher to receive funding for two projects.
March 02, 2022
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.
March 01, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe that restrictions on protests can be upheld in court so long as they are “‘content-neutral,’ e.g., not designed to suppress a particular viewpoint.”
March 01, 2022
In, Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It, Professor Woodrow Hartzog and co-author Professor Daniel Solove of GW Law show how major data breaches could have been prevented or mitigated through a different approach to data security rules.
February 25, 2022
“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.
February 25, 2022
Professor Claudia Haupt talked to Bloomberg Law about professional knowledge and state regulation of medical practice: “The real problem arises when the state tries to regulate something as a practice of medicine in a way that contradicts medical insights.”
February 25, 2022
“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.