March 24, 2024
Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP, says the government has a role to play in solving the shortage of the only medication that can treat syphilis in pregnant people.
March 22, 2024
Professor Daniel Medwed comments for The Boston Globe on the recent federal appeal court ruling in the Tsarnaev case: “Imposing the ultimate punishment, death, warrants the ultimate process. And given the significant lingering questions about jury selection in the original trial, this is a just result.”
March 21, 2024
Professor Jeremy Paul and his son, Jason Paul, an attorney and author of Trench Warfare Politics in the Tinder Era, have co-authored an op-ed for The Hill.
March 20, 2024
“While preemption law varies from state to state and even law to law, the Brookline innovation is one that may inspire communities to devise new ways to overcome state preemption in other areas that threaten public health and involve age limits on purchases, such as firearm sales,” writes Professor Martha Davis in her latest piece for the Brennan Center's State Court Report.
March 19, 2024
With the support of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, new federal legislation to regulate sports betting as a public health issue has been proposed. The SAFE Bet Act will offer regulation to protect people in the U.S. from gambling-related harm in the new era of high-tech sports betting.
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March 18, 2024
Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, spoke at SXSW, the South by Southwest Conference, in March 2024. She joined a panel of social justice experts to discuss Policing and Modern-Day Lynchings in the Rural South.
March 15, 2024
The bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the United States is moving toward the Senate, but Professor Elettra Biettie tells Northeastern Global News it could get mired in the courts based on First Amendment concerns.
March 15, 2024
Northeastern Law’s Black Law Students Association–Kemet Chapter made its mark at the Northeast Black Law Students Association’s (NEBLSA) 56th Annual Convention, which took place in Buffalo, New York, in February. The theme for the 2024 convention was Boldness, Imprint, Legacy.
March 14, 2024
David Rothstein ’97, a land protection specialist for Massachusetts Audubon, was part of the team that won every award at the 2024 Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships, marking the second time in the competition’s 33-year history that a team made a clean sweep.
March 14, 2024
Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), in collaboration with Suffolk University’s Center for Restorative Justice (CRJ), held the commonwealth’s first-ever training in community-centered, restorative justice practices for Massachusetts state court judges.
March 13, 2024
“The challenge pending in Hawaii provides a timely occasion for judicial review of the current medically oriented approach to midwifery regulation,” writes Professor Martha Davis in a piece for the State Court Report.
March 12, 2024
Gretchen Engel ’92, executive director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, has dedicated her legal career to advocating for those facing capital punishment. She served as co-counsel for Daniel Gwynn, who was recently exonerated after almost 30 years on death row in Pennsylvania. In an interview with Northeastern Global News, she talks about her first death row exoneration, the co-op experiences that were formative in her decision to practice capital cases and the faculty that inspired her to fight on behalf of those who face the law’s toughest punishments.