January 11, 2021
Rashida Richardson '11, who joins the Northeastern Law faculty in July, has co-authored a new article for Slate on student data practices in higher ed: "Algorithms cannot correct the racial, gender, and disability discrimination of the past and should not be used to reverse the progress we are making toward equality and accessibility in higher education."
January 11, 2021
In a powerful piece for CommonWealth Magazine, David Apfel ’87, a partner at Goodwin and a former federal prosecutor, writes about the death of his client, Joseph Messere: "As a prisoner at MCI-Norfolk, he never had a chance."
January 10, 2021
Commenting for The Boston Globe, Betty Francisco '98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital, says the next mayor of Boston should be someone who “represents Boston’s new majority, and who will fulfill the promise of making this the most inclusive, equitable and welcoming city in the country.”
January 07, 2021
One far-fetched but not impossible repercussion for Trump could be impeachment in the final days of his presidency, Professor Daniel Urman tells Northeastern News .
January 07, 2021
Professor Blaine Saito comments for Bloomberg Tax on Coca Cola's multibillion-dollar tax fight.
January 07, 2021
The pandemic has exacerbated an already really challenging public health crisis, Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells the Tennessean. "It’s hard to understand the scope of the issue of intimate partner violence because so much is unreported. We know based on expertise and what we’re seeing that intimate partner violence is going up.”
January 06, 2021
Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, a leading authority on law, technology and society, has been appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of Law & Social Inquiry (LSI), a peer-reviewed journal that publishes work on sociolegal issues across multiple disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, economics, history, law, philosophy, political science, sociology and social psychology.
January 05, 2021
The [vaccine] innovators hold patent rights and trade secret rights over those technologies, and they're unwilling to share them broadly to other manufacturers. So we have artificially constricted supply, Professor Brook Baker tells NPR.
January 05, 2021
“We have not seen any progress in a long time," Professor Patricia Garin '84, co-director of Northeastern Law's Prisoners' Rights Clinic, tells WGBH News. “We're hoping to get some support from the executive branch and the Legislature to get the parole board to do its work more effectively and expeditiously.”
January 02, 2021
The Barr Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation have joined the roster of funders to the Initiative for Energy Justice, which supports the delivery of equity-centered energy policy research and technical assistance to policymakers and frontline communities across the country.
January 02, 2021
Professor Deborah Ramirez, chair and founder of Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force, was invited to speak before the California Assembly select committee at a virtual hearing on police accountability last month. Professor Ramirez explained how her idea to make personal liability insurance mandatory for individual police officers would work.
January 02, 2021
In an op-ed coauthored for The Hill, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 offers concrete proposals to turn climate justice goals into climate justice policies.