April 20, 2020
The facilities that house the more than 37,000 detained immigrants across the United States, with their close communal living quarters, can be a breeding ground for disease, says Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, co-director of Northeastern Law's Immigrant Justice Clinic.
April 20, 2020
“People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Atlantic. “We keep them out, and we’ll be okay. When you have a body politic that buys into these ideas of isolationism and ethnonationalism, you’re especially vulnerable when a pandemic hits.”
April 20, 2020
In developing responses to COVID-19, it’s important to consider lessons learned by past epidemics, as Dr. Anthony Fauci told us at our 2017 conference, “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases.”
April 20, 2020
Professor Brook Baker responds to Costa Rica’s request for an emergency COVID-19 Technology Intellectual Property Pool (TIPP) for all countries: “Simply put, no exclusive rights should stand in the way of governments’ and the global community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
April 20, 2020
The show must go on! Portland lawyer Alison “Tex” Clark ’98 has been pre-recording her weekly community radio show with XRAY.FM from home since the emergence of COVID-19.
April 20, 2020
Unless timely action is taken, South Africa could be faced with a new form of “pharmaceutical apartheid,” like that experienced in the early days of the AIDS response, when access to medicines here was blocked by decisions made by rich countries and pharmaceutical companies in the Global North, writes Professor Brook Baker in a co-authored op-ed for Spotlight.
April 17, 2020
In recognition of its national leadership in experiential learning, Northeastern University School of Law has been ranked No. 1 for practical training by The National Jurist/preLaw. This is the sixth year in a row that Northeastern has held the No. 1 spot.
April 17, 2020
Professor Kara Swanson has been named as the 2020 Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellow by the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. While in residence at the Lemelson Center in early 2021, she will work on her project, “Inventing Citizens: Race, Gender, and Patents.”
April 17, 2020
“The troubling thing about these public health emergencies is it does give governments really wide latitude to enact and enforce laws that we might otherwise see as violations of privacy or civil liberties,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells TIME.
April 17, 2020
There are a few, still weak, glimmers of hope regarding the nation’s response to dangers created by our immigration policies, writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, in her latest blog for Health Affairs. "If we are to learn the lessons of this moment, these small glimmers must give rise to a new approach to protecting the health of immigrants.
April 15, 2020
Shannon Al-Wakeel has been appointed managing director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC). Al-Wakeel’s background and expertise include community lawyering, direct representation and public policy advocacy challenging state targeting of marginalized communities.
April 15, 2020
“If one state opens up— whatever that means—in a way that the other states are not ready to do, it could cause a catastrophe,” says Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “The virus doesn’t pay a toll on the George Washington Bridge.”