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.
November 18, 2021
"The mandate is very defensible, and I think it should be seen as within OSHA’s purview,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells TIME.
November 18, 2021
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined @GBH's Morning Edition to discuss the case of Inyoung You, a former Boston College student indicted with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the suicide of her boyfriend.
November 17, 2021
“The license between Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool is disappointingly limited to only 95 countries with just 53% of the world’s population, or 4.1 billion people,” Professor Brook Baker tell STAT.
November 16, 2021
Congratulations to Barbara Buell ’71, Angela Carr ’04, Taramattie Doucette ’88, Ellen Gallagher ’91,
Jacklyn Gurany ’10 and Elizabeth Rodgers ’76 who will be honored as trailblazers and role models by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly at a virtual event on Wednesday, November 17.
November 16, 2021
In her contribution to Divided We Fall's Civility Without Borders series, Professor Martha Davis argues that ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights (ICESCR) would benefit the United States both domestically and internationally.
November 16, 2021
“This is not something progressive Democrats together with progressive allies are going to significantly achieve,” Professor Emeritus Peter Enrich, chair of the Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts, tells CommonWealth. “If we’re going to make a difference here, it’s going to require a far broader coalition that reaches out across the political spectrum, to groups engaged with various issues.”
November 16, 2021
Listen back: Professor Ari Waldman joined the Cincinnati Edition radio show to discuss his new book, Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
November 16, 2021
The Roux Institute at Northeastern University has named Rohan Vakil ’21 as the first Roux Institute Legal Fellow. The fellowship is a collaboration between Northeastern University School of Law and the Roux Institute to support start-ups and entrepreneurs affiliated with the Roux Institute by providing guidance on a variety of business formation and related matters.