November 26, 2019
The system is overly broad and often penalizes people for things that have nothing to do with the problem they are ostensibly being treated for. It has disastrous consequences: You can lose your kid, lose your job, says Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Lab.
November 25, 2019
In an op-ed recently published by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sarah Peck '96, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, raises the concern that active shooter drills in schools can traumatize children.
November 25, 2019
Two Northeastern Law students have been awarded two-year Skadden Fellowships, among the most competitive awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law. Upon graduation, Emma Halas-O'Connor ’20 and Larisa Zehr ’20 join nonprofit organizations representing those with limited access to legal resources.
November 20, 2019
Mark Gottlieb '93, executive director of Northeaster Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), tells The New York Times that he sees a proposed new Massachusetts bill banning all flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products as a step toward the phasing out of conventional cigarettes entirely: “I have to believe that in the next decade or two, at most, we’re going to see those combusted tobacco products like Marlboro and Camel and the like eventually be regulated out of the marketplace.”
November 19, 2019
When Sean Ellis was 19, a jury in Suffolk Superior Court convicted him in the September 1993 murder of a Boston police detective. After being granted a new trial in 2015 by then Judge Carol Ball ’76, who wrote, “Justice was note done,” in the case, referring to a wave of corruption allegations against the Boston police, prosecutors chose not to pursue another case against Ellis. Last Friday night, Ellis addressed a crowd of over 100 people, who had gathered at the Center at the Heights to hear his story. Sharing the stage with Ellis was Professor Stephanie Hartung, who said, “the way the District Attorney’s office and the Boston Police Department handled the exoneration was disgraceful.”
November 16, 2019
“What Joseph’s behavior has become is a rallying cry, not just for judicial independence, not just for states’ rights, but also a form of civil disobedience, that we, as state duly appointed judges, won’t be cowed by federal prosecutors,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The New York Times.
November 16, 2019
“What’s conceptually difficult is that you do have the suicide victim who is ultimately making a decision for him or herself,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Washington Post. “And so it’s harder to say that the perpetrator’s conduct directly caused the death when the victim has made a choice — a relatively autonomous choice — to take his or her own life.”
November 16, 2019
On the 45th anniversary of the enactment of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Robert Crabtree ’76 outlines five issues in special education that every candidate for office should be prepared to address.
November 16, 2019
CDC and AIDS service organizations should not be in the unenviable position of having to rely on continued high prices charged by Gilead to get dimes on the dollar of what should otherwise be appropriated by Congress on a sustainable basis, writes Professor Brook Baker in his latest opinion piece for the Health GAP blog.
November 15, 2019
Professor Woodrow Hartzog's work on facial recognition is cited by Vox.
November 15, 2019
Listen: Professor Kara Swanson, author of Banking on the Body (Harvard University Press, 2014), was interviewed by NPR's Planet Money for a segment on sperm banks.
November 15, 2019
“Although seemingly counterintuitive, now is the perfect time to pass a federal red flag law,” writes Sarah Peck '96, director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute’s United on Guns initiative, in an op-ed for The Hill.