March 19, 2023
“I think the plaintiff here is right when we’re talking about ingredients or quality or we’re talking about light meat versus dark meat,” said Professor Alexandra Roberts in The Wall Street Journal on a boneless-wing lawsuit that accuses Buffalo Wild Wings of false advertising, “That might be something that’s really important to a consumer who’s purchasing something in a category of wings or nuggets or whatever it is.”
March 17, 2023
A legal team from Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Project and Northwestern Law School has filed a petition in a historic Springfield Race Riot case. “Throughout history, we have seen white juries not only convict and execute Black men and women on scant evidence but acquit whites who murder Black people in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt,” says Professor Margaret Burnham.
March 17, 2023
“By Hands Now Known is one of those rare books that forces us to consider in new ways the nature of our politics and society and the enduring legacy of our troubled past,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winner Eric Foner in his glowing review of Professor Margaret Burnham’s pathbreaking treatise on the Jim Crow South, in The New York Review of Books.
March 17, 2023
Professor Wendy Parmet comments on the "precarious game" of limiting public health officials' power to impose measures to protect public health, “You want to say the health department can’t close schools, but what if the next pandemic has a 50 percent fatality rate for kids, but adults are fine?” in Politico.
March 16, 2023
Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) hosted a webinar on the law, science and impact of the rapidly expanding gambling in the America, and featured Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director of PHAI, among other panelists.
March 16, 2023
Melissa Hoffer ’98 makes environmental history as Massachusetts' first climate chief in Gov. Maura Healey's administration, and plans to make the state a model for reducing carbon emissions. “The climate office is really here to inject climate change into the DNA of the other state agencies,” Hoffer says in Northeastern Global News.
March 16, 2023
Professor Emeritus Peter Enrich weighs in on whether Massachusetts should raise the corporate tax, "If we expect our state to provide the services needed for a thriving citizenry and...additional assistance to struggling working families, we must require the large, highly profitable global corporations that dominate our economy to pay their fair share in state taxes," in The Boston Globe.
March 16, 2023
Professor Alexandra (Xander) Meise was a guest commentator on the Salaam Nerds podcast to discuss utilitarianism, the Trolly problem, zombies and issues of ethics in the Season 1 finale of the critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic TV series "The Last of Us."
March 16, 2023
Professor Brook Baker co-wrote an article, “From Business as Usual to Health for the Future: Challenging the Intellectual Property Regime to Address COVID-19 and Future Pandemics,” on the legal, political, and commercial obstacles that bar low- and middle-income countries from getting access to the pharmaceutical products needed to protect their populations during a pandemic.
March 15, 2023
Northeastern Law students Melissa Niles ’24 and Sebastien Philemon ’24 finished second place at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition sponsored by the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) in Washington, DC. Jessica Andrade ’24, the national director of communications on the NBLSA board, was also recognized with the Pickett-Sowell Joy of NBLSA Award for her outstanding service and ever-positive attitude.
March 15, 2023
As part of its inaugural Law School Innovation Program, Bloomberg Law recognizes law schools that are leading the way in rethinking the traditional curriculum through creative coursework and experiential learning. In its list of top law schools, Bloomberg Law cites Northeastern’s NuLawLab, the school’s innovation laboratory, for helping to reshape the legal profession and support social change.
March 14, 2023
Professor Daniel Medwed talks about the history and the current practice of jury trials in GBH's Morning Edition, "You get 12 different people from our very diverse country, bring them all together in a room to talk about facts, and essentially a good result will occur. But the practice is much uglier than that, right?"