February 05, 2020
“Obscurity is really important and really powerful in the modern-day privacy debates because it’s intuitive to all of us in the way that we live our lives, but we don’t often think about it in terms of privacy,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells USA Today
February 05, 2020
It’s easy to think of diseases as ‘over there, them, we built a wall—problem solved.’ And that’s just not the way it works, especially with respiratory diseases,” cautions Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law.
February 05, 2020
As part of its Black History Month celebrations, the National Disability Rights Network has produced a video tribute in in memory of Professor Hope Lewis: "Although Professor Lewis passed away in 2016, her continual efforts to protect the human and economic rights of impoverished/marginalized people still live on around the world through her legal research, teachings and prolific advocacy."
February 04, 2020
“Quarantines and travel bans have a really, really ugly history, Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian. "" Everyone always wants to do it when people are scared. But the downsides are high and the risks are high.”"
February 03, 2020
Rather than contain an epidemic, harsh, coercive policies often scapegoat already-marginalized populations and intensify panic rather than quell it, write Professor Wendy Parmet and Visiting Scholar Michael Sinha in a co-authored op-ed for The Washington Post.
February 03, 2020
Professor Kara Swanson will deliver the luncheon keynote at the Seventeenth Annual IP and Social Justice CLE Seminar on February 28 at Howard University School of Law. Professor Swanson will talk about, "Remembering Invention of a Slave: Patents and the Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights."
February 03, 2020
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, is profiled as the co-founder of one of the most important networking organizations in Massachusetts’ fast-growing Latino community. “We could see there was a lot of talent,” she tells The Boston Globe. “But oftentimes, it was not very visible to those who could open a door for them.”
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."