January 19, 2023
“These ‘no body’ cases are challenging in part because of an ancient legal concept known as ‘corpus delicti,’ which posits that the government needs to prove that a crime has occurred before charging anyone with it," Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. "Compelling circumstantial evidence can still yield a conviction in such a case."
January 18, 2023
“This is an entirely new era,” said Ari Ezra Waldman, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern Law, in ProPublica. “We’re moving to a modern surveillance state where every website we visit is tracked. We have yet to conceptualize the entire body of laws that could be used to criminalize people getting abortions.”
January 18, 2023
"Under Armour successfully convinced a jury that the use of Armorina for women’s athleisure apparel and accessories created a likelihood of confusion among consumers that the Armorina brand was sold by or connected in some way with Under Armour,” said Alexandra J. Roberts, professor of law and media at Northeastern Law, in a Sportico story.
January 17, 2023
“Its fingerprints are all over the policies that are adopted,” Professor Brook Baker tells The Chronicle of Philanthropy on the Gates Foundation. “There’s a fundamental problem when a person who has amassed great personal wealth, who has made some important commitments towards improving global health has unreviewable power to influence policy.”
January 17, 2023
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that David Simon, an expert on intellectual property, healthcare law, data and privacy will join the Northeastern University community on July 1, 2023, as associate professor of Law. “After teaching at Northeastern in the fall of 2021, I knew it was where I wanted to be. It has everything one could ask for,” said Simon.
January 17, 2023
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Elettra Bietti, an expert on market regulation, data and antitrust law as they play out in the digital economy, will join the Northeastern University community on July 15, 2023, as assistant professor of law and computer science within the School of Law and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
January 16, 2023
Are people who can't manage stairs not part of the community? Carol R. Steinberg ’80, Boston-based attorney and disability activist, wrote an article in the Boston Globe about accessibility issues in a community bookstore.
January 15, 2023
Rose Zoltek-Jick, the associate director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), worked on a 1941 case–a white military police officer shot a Black soldier after he talked loudly on a bus– that was mentioned in this Washington Post article about a similar case on two black soldiers: Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn.
January 12, 2023
Rarely does the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) look to a law school when fulfilling its mission to fund the arts and education in communities nationwide, but with an unprecedented $150,000 grant to Northeastern University School of Law’s NuLawLab, law is on center stage with the arts.
January 11, 2023
Using DNA to solve crimes “is especially effective in cases where it’s very easy to tie the profile to the crime, like a single perpetrator sexual assault,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells Northeastern Global News. “When it comes to forensic genealogy, people also have to remember that not everybody is in the genealogical research pool.”
January 09, 2023
Professor Martha Davis wrote an op-ed for the Brennan Center for Justice Center analyzing three recent cases involving abortion, gun control and public health, where state preemption principles played a key role.
January 09, 2023
This story was investigated by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ). CRRJ partnered with members of the Strickland family to plan a commemorative event that brought together more than 40 members of the Strickland family, along with CRRJ Program Director Katie Sandson, CRRJ Elizabeth Zitrin fellow Malcolm Clarke, CRRJ student investigator Dakotah Kennedy and members of the community.