December 07, 2020
“Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Daily Free Press. “If we’re concerned about police abuse … having oversight and statewide accountability is a step forward because people obviously act differently when they know they’re being watched.”
December 07, 2020
Congratulations to Chase Strangio ’10, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, who has been named to Vanity Fair's list of Extraordinary Historymakers of 2020!
December 07, 2020
“The question for the European Commission is: why did it not have a contract with Gilead with an escape clause based on the Solidarity trial outcome?” Professor Brook Baker tells the British Medical Journal. “Regulators and authorities have an ongoing responsibility to ensure safety and efficacy.”
December 07, 2020
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, is profiled by Northeastern News.
December 07, 2020
Only when CDC guidance on COVID-19 fully takes the social determinants of health into account will it begin to make a dent in our ability to control the pandemic, writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in a piece for the Petrie Flom Center's Bill of Health Blog.
December 07, 2020
It is decades of disinvestment in the public education of our most vulnerable students that’s keeping students out of classrooms, not teachers unions or uninformed school boards disregarding the experts," writes Professor Jared Nicholson in an op-ed for The Boston Globe.
November 27, 2020
“We need to be thinking much more boldly,” says Professor Leo Beletsky, who presented his proposal that the City of Boston should consider commandeering private property for temporary shelter use during a virtual hearing last week.
November 27, 2020
Three Northeastern Law students have been awarded two-year Skadden Fellowships, among the most competitive and prestigious awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law. Upon graduation, Oriana M Farnham '21, Erin Stewart '21 and Moriah Wilkins ’21 will join nonprofit organizations representing those with limited access to legal resources.
November 27, 2020
In an op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Carol Steinberg '80 calls on the Massachusetts Legislature to fulfill the promise of the ADA in its 30th anniversary year: "We must rally together to see that H.4425 is passed this session."
November 23, 2020
“There’s a lot a president can do, but can he just sign a piece of paper that says, ‘Thou shalt wear masks or else?’ No,” says Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law.
November 23, 2020
I would be surprised if the court ruled in a way that completely decapitated the governor's ability to respond to the pandemic, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Law360. "I don't think we have a dynamic here that we have in some states with that level of tension between the governor and the legislature."
November 23, 2020
Karen Kithan Yau ’96, of counsel at Kakalec Law, has been selected to receive a Pro Bono Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) at the organization’s annual ceremony in December. Yau is co-chair of the Pro Bono and Community Service (PBCS) Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).