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.
October 26, 2021
In an opinion piece for CommonWealth, Professor Carol Steinberg ’80 makes the case for two bills pending in the Mass. House and Senate that would enforce accessibility in workplaces when the buildings in which they are located are new or substantially renovated.
October 26, 2021
Joseph Feaster Jr. ’75 recently joined the PowerPLAY Podcast to raise awareness during Suicide Prevention Month and to give voice to those healing from the loss of a loved one.
October 25, 2021
Rachael Rollins ’97 will be “fair on crime, but she will be tough on crime” if confirmed as the US attorney for Massachusetts, says her law school classmate, Dan Jackson ’97, executive director of Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab.
October 21, 2021
“We cannot legislate feelings about race into silence,” writes Professor Patricia Williams in her latest column for The Nation. ”Outlawing shame, guilt, and discomfort is not only silly and impossible; it positions race the same way blasphemy laws position speaking ill of God or the king.”
October 20, 2021
“To pretend that a dose in an American arm doesn’t mean one less dose in an African arm doesn’t make sense,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Scientific American.