July 09, 2025
How can cities harness smart technology while protecting human rights? In a new piece for Open Global Rights, Professor Martha Davis and her co-authors examine how a human rights framework can inform the development and governance of smarter cities.
July 09, 2025
Massachusetts State Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 will deliver the keynote address at the 2025 Reunion Celebration on Saturday, October 18.
July 07, 2025
Professors Hooman Noorchashm and David A. Simon, co-directors of the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety (AJRC), have filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting stronger oversight of the VariTrax sternal closure device, which is used to close the chest after heart surgery.
July 07, 2025
Watch now: Professor Alexandra J. Roberts, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity, joined Good Morning America to weigh in on Lululemon’s lawsuit against Costco.
July 03, 2025
“By removing Wilcox, Trump established a precedent for incoming presidents to oust NLRB members who are not of their party,” Professor Ryan Quinn tells Law350.
June 30, 2025
Professor Elettra Biett has received the 2025 Best Junior Paper Award from the Academic Society for Competition Law for her paper, “Rawlsian Antitrust.”
June 30, 2025
”The National Park Service is the starting point for anything Trump might want to do with Mount Rushmore, and the service reports to the secretary of the Interior,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Northeastern Global News.
June 24, 2025
“Trademark infringement has been found in plenty of cases in which defendant’s mark is spelled differently from plaintiff’s but pronounced the same, even when the two terms have different meanings,” Professor Alexandra J. Roberts tells Fast Company. “The key question in infringement cases is likelihood of confusion.”
June 24, 2025
Dr. Deborah Jackson, managing director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race, provided historical context at the university's Juneteenth celebration. She reminded the audience that Black people fought for their freedom for nearly 200 years before emancipation was announced in Texas on June 19, 1865.
June 24, 2025
“Everyone understands that the president has some commander-in-chief power, and everyone understands that Congress has power to declare war because we shouldn’t be committing long-run American military force without much more democratic deliberation,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Northeastern Global News. “It’s very challenging to see where the balance should be set.”
June 24, 2025
Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute has filed a first-of-its kind lawsuit against Caesars Online Casino in Pennsylvania state court alleging that its $2,500 deposit match promotion for new customers is misleading, predatory and likely illegal.
June 19, 2025
Professor Daniel Medwed shares his perspective on Karen Read’s acquittal in The New York Times: “The defense did a very good job of poking holes in the prosecution’s case and generating reasonable doubt about her guilt. At bottom, trials are about putting the government’s evidence to the test. Norfolk prosecutors simply failed the test.”