July 01, 2020
Facial recognition technology is so inherently destructive that the safest approach is to pull it out root and stem,"" Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells NBC News."
July 01, 2020
Listen back: Professor Jessica Silbey, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC), was a recent guest on Counsel to Counsel, a podcast hosted by Stephen Seckler ’88, president of Seckler Legal Recruiting and Coaching.
July 01, 2020
Murder in Mobile” has earned a Boston/New England Regional Emmy® Award in the documentary category! The 23-minute documentary features the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ) and the 1948 murder of Rayfield Davis, whose case was unearthed and investigated by Chelsea Schmitz ’13.
July 01, 2020
Professor Kara Swanson's new Columbia Law Review article, "Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on Invention of a Slave," is cited by Patentlyo, America's leading patent law blog.
July 01, 2020
“Travel advisories are themselves deeply problematic,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Boston Globe. “The dilemma is showing up the disaster of what’s been happening: the fact that we don’t have a federal policy, and no consistency among the states.”
July 01, 2020
We’re at a critical moment, and the insurance industry can make a real difference, Professor Deborah Ramirez tells Risk & Insurance Magazine.
July 01, 2020
“Whenever you have something that cannot be enforced widely, if it’s enforced sporadically, that raises concerns about discrimination and profiling,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells City & State. “Who among the people driving up I-95 are the ones who get stopped?”
July 01, 2020
“We can’t just assume that because we have a conservative majority, the right will always win,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells The Atlantic.
July 01, 2020
Rich countries have more money to spend on research and development,Professor Brook Baker tells VOA News. "Does that mean that only rich people get medicine? That's highly problematic in a moral, ethical sense."
July 01, 2020
“The right to an abortion is political,” writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in her latest blog for Human Rights at Home. “It was taken out of the domain of health services where women’s health advocates would like to keep it and is volleyed about as a political tool from elections to Supreme Court nominations, costing lives, health, and well-being in the process.”
July 01, 2020
Professor Ari Waldman has been appointed by New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore to a new commission charged with examining the enhanced use of technology and online platforms, among other innovations, and making recommendations to improve the delivery and quality of justice services, facilitate access to justice and better equip the New York State court system to keep pace with society’s rapidly evolving changes.
June 15, 2020
To spark debate, conversation and intersectional advocacy to advance the cause of LGBTQ liberation, Professor Ari Ezra Waldman has launched Legally Queer, an LGBTQ legal education project on social media that includes daily posts about a case, decision, law (or law-related event) related to the LGBTQ community that took place on that date in history.