November 04, 2021
For too long, "the United States has often been on the sidelines during international discussion of water challenges," writes Professor Martha Davis in a piece for WBUR's Cognoscenti.
November 04, 2021
Kelly Cooke ’19 is part of a class of 10 female officials who will work games this season in the American Hockey League. “My goal has always been to referee in the Olympics,” she says. “Hopefully, that will be in the cards.”
November 03, 2021
Professor Daniel Medwed has joined forces with Professor Kevin McMunigal of Case Western Reserve University School of Law to author Criminal Law: Problems, Statutes, and Cases (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., 2021), which combines effective, innovative teaching methods, such as the use of problems and visual materials, with cases, including recent opinions on bias intimidation, possession of child pornography, threatening speech on social media and theft of computer code.
November 03, 2021
Congratulations to Professor Jared Nicholson, director of Northeastern Law’s Community Business Clinic, on his election as mayor of Lynn!
November 03, 2021
Professor Margaret Y.K. Woo has teamed up with Professor Paul Schiff Berman of GW Law to author Global Issues in Civil Procedure (West Academic, 2021), a compelling new text that is designed to facilitate the introduction of international, transnational and comparative law issues into a first-year civil procedure course.
November 02, 2021
“This very situation arose a couple of years ago when #MassAndCass was cleared out under Operation Clean Sweep,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Heath in Justice Action Lab, tells NBC10 Boston “And we’re back where we started so clearly this kind of approach doesn’t work.”
November 01, 2021
“A decision by the Supreme Court that rejects its own precedent on vaccine mandates and ignores the distinctions between medical exemptions and religious exemptions will reverberate far beyond the Covid-19 pandemic,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in an op-ed for The New York Times. “Whether or not the court intended to unsettle the constitutionality of vaccine mandates, it has done so.“
October 29, 2021
Professor Emily Spieler has been selected to receive the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) 2021 Samuel Gompers Award, in recognition of her outstanding efforts “in improving the working conditions of the masses.”
October 29, 2021
The city of Boston said it would begin removing tents at the homeless encampment at Mass and Cass. Are forcible removals like this legal? Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, weighs in.
October 28, 2021
Watch: Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity and author of Industy Unbound, joined Scott McGrew on NBC's Press:Here, to talk about big tech’s power over congress and society at large.
October 26, 2021
Michael Licker ’10, head of litigation and investigations for Boston-based Wayfair, is profiled by Modern Counsel.
October 26, 2021
Gina Perini ’01, chair of the board of directors and chief executive officer at SOMOS, blogs about the core benefits of a "virtual first" mode of working, collaborating and communicating.