September 15, 2025
Joyce White Vance, who served as US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama during the Obama administration, will deliver a keynote address at the 18th annual Brown Forum for Women in the Law Conference on May 15, 2026.
September 11, 2025
“Trump's comments may be more about attempting not to appear as a lame duck than a real plan to run for a third term,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Newsweek.
September 11, 2025
Professor Elettra Bietti provides crucial insights for Harvard Law Today into the antitrust lawsuit brought by real estate brokerage Compass.
September 07, 2025
Commenting for Politico, Professor Elettra Bietti suggests the upcoming Virginia ad tech trial could be more promising for Google breakup advocates than last week's search ruling. She believes Judge Leonie Brinkema "could actually be persuaded that a divestment would work in that context" where courts have already found illegal monopolization in Google's ad tech business.
September 07, 2025
“The courts have come down on the side of cities who are emphasizing that sanctuary policies are a way of furthering public safety,” Professor Hemanth Gundavaram tells The Boston Globe. “It’s a decision local jurisdictions are constitutionally able to make.”
September 07, 2025
While attacks on vaccines at the state level and in litigation have been ongoing, the growing federal attacks led by Kennedy have made this a “multipronged attack” on vaccine infrastructure, Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director of Northeastern University Law‘s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post.
September 06, 2025
“Recantation evidence is always viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells Courthouse News Service. “A lot of courts are saying, ‘If someone is swearing under oath and then later saying they lied under oath, how do we know that they’re telling the truth now?’”
September 05, 2025
Northeastern University's School of Law and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs are proud to welcome nine distinguished legal and policy professionals as the inaugural cohort of the Northeastern University Law and Policy Fellows Program.
September 03, 2025
“The standards are lax and can be manipulated by expert lawyers and creative manufacturers,” Professor David Simon, co-director of Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety, tells Bloomberg. “In a variety of cases, devices are cleared and implanted in humans without ever having been tested on humans.”
September 03, 2025
CPIAC is proud to announce the launch of its new Visiting Fellowship Program and the appointment of Kathleen Rubenstein as its inaugural visiting scholar.
September 03, 2025
In her new book, Research Handbook on Trade Law and Development, Professor Sonia E. Rolland brings together global experts who articulate contemporary research on the linkages between trade governance, sustainability, food security, intellectual property, industrial policy, the digital economy and more.
August 29, 2025
Professor Claudia E. Haupt, a nationally recognized expert on First Amendment law whose current work is situated at the intersection of free speech, health and technology, has been named faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law.