November 26, 2023
Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), is representing the town of Brookline in a challenge to its tobacco-free generation law. “What the SJC does in this case may not have any impact on whether a policy may withstand a legal challenge in other states,” he tells The Boston Globe. “But it certainly would show it’s possible, given the right legal environment, to implement a policy that is truly an end-game policy for tobacco sales.”
November 17, 2023
Professor Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, comments for Boston.com on the new Massachusetts Lottery app: ”I think it makes much more sense, in terms of public health practice, to have fewer opportunities for such people to be playing. Putting the games in everybody’s pocket is going to make this a greater problem.”
November 15, 2023
Western Mass. Man Paddles the Connecticut River in a ‘Very Hokey’ Watercraft. (It’s a Pumpkin!)
Never one to shy away from a challenge, environmental lawyer and sculptor David Rothstein ’97 beat the world record for distance paddled in a pumpkin!
November 15, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham has won the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, for her book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honors Black writers and is the first national award presented to and by Black authors.
November 14, 2023
In a piece for the National Jurist, Professor Jeremy Paul and Professor Richard Michael Fischl, the co-author of his best-selling book on law exams, share their test taking tips.
November 13, 2023
“Just because prosecutors can file charges based on the word of someone currying favor for himself doesn’t mean they should,” Profess Daniel Medwed tells TribLive.com.
November 10, 2023
Professor Katherine (Katie) Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, is the co-editor of a newly published book, COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The collection of essays provides a critical reflection on what changes the pandemic has already introduced, and what its legacy may be.
November 07, 2023
Professors Aliza Hochman Bloom and Daniel Medwed comment for Northeastern Global News.
November 06, 2023
Bloomberg Law quotes Professor Alexandra Roberts on the ‘Trump Too Small’ trademark claim, currently under review by the Supreme Court.
November 06, 2023
In a co-authored piece for the Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health blog, Professor Wendy Parmet, Alisa Lincoln and Elaine Marshall ’22 write about the Supreme Court’s ecological fallacy in disregarding robust population-level research in their decision on affirmative action.
November 06, 2023
Listen back: On Boston Public Radio, Hema Sarang-Sieminski ’05, deputy director of Jane Doe Inc., discusses a proposed bill that would add “coercive control” as a manifestation of abuse that would merit a restraining order.
November 04, 2023
Professor Zinaida Miller has published a blog for Just Security, an online forum for the rigorous analysis of security, democracy, foreign policy and rights.