July 20, 2023
Northeastern Global News profiles Professor Michael Meltsner, “a legend in civil rights and anti-death penalty circles,” who is retiring after 44 fruitful years.
July 19, 2023
“If the extremist 5th Circuit lets Judge Doughty’s ruling stand, victims of unpoliced lies will surely suffer,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. ”Ultimately, free speech itself will pay the price.”
July 19, 2023
Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context program is delighted to welcome Sarah Lee Day ’21 as a visiting assistant teaching professor.
July 14, 2023
The San Francisco Chronicle looks to Professor Beth Noveck, director of the Burnes Center for Social Change for her thoughts on generative AI: “At the very least it’s like a really good word processor.”
July 14, 2023
Commenting for Bloomberg Law, Professor Wendy E. Parmet points out that recent federal court decisions on remote work as a disability accommodation may not show the full picture. ”The cases that make it to judicial decisions usually have the weakest claims. With the stronger cases, the employer and employee would probably reach some accommodation. Those would not be worth it for the employer to litigate.”
July 13, 2023
Elyse Cherry ’83, chief executive of BlueHub Capital, talks to NGN Magazine about her path: “In my adult lifetime we’ve gone from living under threat of being fired, being a criminal because of being an LGBTQ+ person to having same-sex marriage and a public life and a focus on bringing our authentic selves everywhere we go. It’s a gigantic shift.”
July 13, 2023
”It’s incredibly hard to reverse a conviction,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Davis Vanguard. ”After a conviction, the presumption of innocence disappears, a presumption of guilt takes hold, and all of the procedures are stacked in favor of reinforcing and supporting that finding of guilt.”
July 12, 2023
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded 10-week summer fellowships to Amanda Flores ’24, Michelle Fujii ’24, Maria Solis Kennedy ’24, Shaun Spinney ’24, Destiny Taylor ’24 and Tiffany Wang ’24..
July 12, 2023
Professor Daniel Medwed explores the factors behind the parole board’s decision to release Leslie Van Houten after 53 years and how it reflects on the justice system at large.
July 11, 2023
“In our illicit drug policy, there are untested hypotheses that get accepted as gospel, and law enforcement and politicians often repeat those hypotheses,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells CommonWealth magazine. “Things like: If we crack down on drug dealers, that’s the way that we’re going to reduce overdose deaths.”
July 07, 2023
On PBS NewsHour, Professor Daniel Medwed, author of Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison, talks about the Supreme Court decision in Jones v Hendrix and the gradual erosion of the federal habeas corpus remedy.
July 07, 2023
A collaboration between Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law and the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Salus Populi provides guidance and training to judges on the social determinants of health and their relationship to judicial decision-making.