December 03, 2021
"We need an entirely new way of thinking about and writing privacy laws, because Big Tech has gotten too good at manipulating process-based laws for its own benefit," writes Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity, in a piece for Slate's Future Tense project.
December 03, 2021
“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."
December 03, 2021
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.
December 02, 2021
“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.
December 02, 2021
New travel bans meant to delay the spread of the omicron COVID-19 variant won’t help quell the virus, but may serve to stigmatize southern African nations where the mutation was first reported, Professor Wendy Parmet tells news@Northeastern.
December 02, 2021
Professor Dan Urman says throwing out landmark decisions would further threaten the Supreme Court’s legitimacy and independent status.
December 02, 2021
Commenting for PolitiFact, Professor Martha Davis cautions that the text of any law alone fails to capture the full picture of abortion availability in Europe.
November 30, 2021
New Article Alert: Professor Beth Simone Noveck's article, “Randomistas vs. Contestistas,” an excerpt from her new book, Solving Public Problems, has been published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review .
November 29, 2021
The severe shortage of Pfizer’s lifesaving overdose reversal drug naloxone “is a symptom of broader dysfunction in the US pharmaceutical industry, where public health concerns are secondary to financial concerns,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The Guardian.
November 24, 2021
“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.”
November 23, 2021
Diana Howat ’22 has been awarded a two-year Skadden Fellowship, among the most competitive awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law. Diana will spend her fellowship at the EdLaw Project, where she completed a co-op in 2020.
November 18, 2021
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.