August 09, 2021
Professor Woodrow Hartzog has come out in support of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo’s proposed Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act, which prohibits online platforms, including social media companies, ad networks and streaming services, from targeting political ads based on the demographic or behavioral data of users.
August 06, 2021
“The ad is correct," Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of Northeastern Law's Criminal Justice Task Force, tells 7News Boston. "It is a good recruiting tool to say to anyone in that job, ‘No matter what you do, whether you commit a crime, put your knee on someone’s neck for nine minutes, you will not be held financially liable."
August 06, 2021
The hope, says Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law's Domestic Violence Institute, is that Biles’s actions also help normalize mental health issues that many adults struggle with in everyday life.
August 05, 2021
On August 4, the army unveiled a historic marker honoring the life of Private Felix Hall, who was found hanging from a tree on a segregated Army base in Georgia in 1941. Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) was first to unearth the FBI file on Hall, the only known victim of a lynching on a US military installation.
August 05, 2021
Listen back: NuLawLab's Dan Jackson '97 and Jules Rochielle Sievert joined the Reimagining Justice podcast to share their insights on the importance of creativity, community and fun in developing legal inventors of the future!
August 05, 2021
Consumers’ Research provides a great overview of Professor Ari Ezra Waldman's Washington University Law Review paper, "Privacy Law's False Promise."
August 05, 2021
“I don’t think that Cuomo thought he was doing anything wrong, which is problematic,” Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells news@Northeastern. “That doesn’t mitigate the harm or the fact that he was doing something wrong and that no one intervened.”
August 04, 2021
CNN Politics asks: "Is it legal to mandate Covid vaccines?" Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, offers expert insights.
August 03, 2021
Commenting for Utah Political Underground, Professor Daniel Medwed says he’s troubled about the possibility of selective prosecution in the case of a Utah woman who has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly smirking at a sheriff's deputy and stomping on a pro-police sign. “Of all the potential hate crimes to investigate and prosecute in the state of Utah, why this one?” he asks.
July 30, 2021
President Biden's budget proposal, which reverses a decades-long ban on abortion funding, is a "significant win for protecting abortion rights," writes Mackenzie Darling '22 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
July 30, 2021
Watch video: Professor Brook Baker appeared on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” to make the case for a vaccine patent waiver to boost production of the COVID vaccination.
July 29, 2021
In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."