January 31, 2020
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, has been awarded a grant of approximately $500,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health.
January 18, 2020
“I don’t see a future where we harness the benefits of face recognition technology without the crippling abuse of the surveillance that comes with it," Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The New York Times. "The only way to stop it is to ban it.”
January 18, 2020
Professor Daniel Medwed comments for Reuters on the Weinstein defense strategy: “If the defense lawyers are perceived as being too aggressive and challenging, it’s going to make the witnesses more sympathetic.”
January 18, 2020
The social understanding of the kind of domestic abuse that can occur in straight relationships has many benefits. Conversely, the lack of understanding of domestic abuse in queer relationships can also translate into a lack of access,"" writes Savannah Weinstock, a student in Northeastern Law's MS in Media Advocacy program, in a piece for US News."
January 17, 2020
Adding plastic filters to cigarettes poses no health benefit to smokers and creates a massive source of toxic tobacco litter, says Ilana Knopf, director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center. "This bill corrects a history of industry deception and protects both human health and the natural environment."
January 16, 2020
Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, an expert in the fields of environmental law and energy law has been invited to join the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) as a Member Scholar.
January 16, 2020
“There is increasing popular support for recognition of women’s rights in the Constitution, and I think that’s only going to continue,” Professor Martha Davis tells The Cut. “This is a campaign that’s gone on for 96 years, and it has not gone away. There’s a lot of energy, and it’s just going to keep going.”
January 15, 2020
Professor Daniel Medwed, who crossed the river in 2019-2020 for a one-year appointment as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (HLS), received a 2020 Teaching and Advising Award from the HLS Student Government.
January 14, 2020
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH News to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to deny Michelle Carter’s appeal in the texting suicide case.
January 13, 2020
Victor Madrigal-Borloz visited Northeastern Law yesterday and shared his experience as the United Nation’s first independent expert on sexuality and gender identity. “In situations of complete exclusion, states refuse to acknowledge individuals as good citizens, as contributors to society,” he said. “In that sense, the key factor is to acknowledge politically, that LGBT persons, that persons of sexual diversity and gender diversity, bring contribution to society.” #NUSLPride
January 08, 2020
Professor Sonia E. Rolland has been nominated to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), which fosters the study of international law and promotes the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice.
January 08, 2020
There certainly would be the opportunity to argue about abortion under the Equal Rights Amendment, but it's not clear how that would come out, Professor Martha Davis tells NPR.