October 04, 2024
“It’s impossible to know how many teens in the country are being charged with drug-induced homicide. There is no national database, many states do not aggregate cases, and when prosecutors file in juvenile court, the records are sealed. As a result, there’s been almost no scrutiny of how these laws are used against kids,” Katie McCreedy ’21, a predoctoral fellow with the Action Lab at Northeastern Law’s Center of Health Policy and Law, tells ProPublica. “How can young people in media stories be simultaneously assumed to know nothing about how deadly the drugs are and also held accountable for homicide?”
October 04, 2024
“We’re seeing a reversal of a trend that’s been happening for a very long time – we’re still at historic highs,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of The Action Lab at Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Guardian. “We need to double down on what works and try to move away from things that do not work.”
October 04, 2024
How can the highest court in the land operate with such lax ethical rules, while the lowest courts in Massachusetts are held to the most stringent of standards? Professor Andrew Haile Professor explores judicial ethics in a thought-provoking op-ed for The Boston Globe.
October 01, 2024
“One way to understand this new movement in antitrust is to see it as a check on the power of private companies to control our economy. And, more broadly, life in the 21st century,” Professor Elettra Bietti tells the Harvard Law Bulletin.
September 29, 2024
“The task of regulators is not just to impose obligations or prohibitions on a company like Apple, but it’s also to constantly monitor that they’re not doing something opaque … [or] using some other mechanism to actually make it really hard for users to access those alternative channels but also for competitors to emerge and succeed against the incumbents,” Professor Elettra Bietti tells Northeastern Global News..
September 25, 2024
Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce the launch of a new Center for Global Law and Justice (CGLJ), which employs innovative and collaborative approaches to address the most urgent global challenges of our time.
September 25, 2024
Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) have received a $30,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation to support CJTF’s Jail-to-Jobs Pipeline Project, a collaboration between CLEAR and Northeastern University’s Corrections and Reentry Lab.
September 24, 2024
In an essay for the Los Angles Review of Books’ Legacies of Eugenics series, Professor Patricia Williams explores how “new-genics” projects encode social bias.
September 24, 2024
Alexander Stein, staff attorney for Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and a former public defender in Chicago, comments for Rolling Stone on “child welfare agencies’ tendency to criminalize poverty.”
September 23, 2024
“What this case needs, I think, is truly a reevaluation, a sort of soup to nuts reevaluation of, ‘Is it worth expending resources on another trial, given what happened before and given all of the evidence that might be favorable to Karen Read,’” Professor Daniel Medwed tells Boston.com.
September 23, 2024
Northeastern Global News reports on Professor Claudia Haupt’s Constitution Day speech, which looked at the intersection of free speech, the First Amendment and public health, “an area of law humming with activity.”
September 20, 2024
The School of Law is pleased to welcome Raquel J. Webster ’03, senior litigation attorney at National Grid, as board president of the Alumni/ae Association board for 2024-2025.