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.
June 15, 2020
Northeastern News spotlights Terrence Johnson, a 2020 graduate of Northeastern’s Master of Science in Media Advocacy, who has gone on to co-host a new YouTube show produced by WGBH that features analysis and insights about how social media users are engaging with the social, economic and cultural issues of the day.
June 15, 2020
MICHELE COLEMAN MAYES TO KEYNOTE WOMEN IN THE LAW Michele Coleman Mayes will deliver the keynote address at the School of Law's 12th annual Women in the Law Conference on
June 15, 2020
Elizabeth Ennen ’08, director of Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE),is one of the leaders of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission's COVID-19 Task Force Pro Bono Committee. The Committee has just launched a new online tool connecting attorneys and law students to pandemic-related pro bono opportunities that serve low-income residents of the Commonwealth.
June 13, 2020
Accepting political contributions from for-profit prisons, either directly or indirectly from a PAC, strikes me as inconsistent with the objectives of many advocates for prison reform and decarceration,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells the New Boston Post.