June 02, 2023
Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) tells CommonWealth magazine the convenience of online lottery will only make it easier for people to get in trouble: “You can bankrupt yourself without ever leaving your house.”
June 01, 2023
Congratulations to Nadia Eldemery ’24, who has been selected to receive the inaugural Tyler Lawrence Peacemaker Award.
June 01, 2023
“My grandfather’s political efforts had to be small and invisible because America wasn’t ready for him,” writes Professor Margaret Woo in a piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti. “He would have been proud and thrilled to witness the election of leaders like Michelle Wu — leaders who stand on his shoulders.”
June 01, 2023
Law center representatives from across the country gathered to learn from each other and strategize at Imperiled Democracy: The Unfinished Promise of Democracy and the Role of Racial Justice Centers, a conference hosted by the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) at Northeastern University School of Law, June 1 and 2, 2023.
June 01, 2023
Constitutional law has helped make Americans unhealthy, argues public health law expert Professor Wendy E. Parmet in her new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health(Cambridge University Press, 2023).
May 31, 2023
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has cited Professor Claudia Haupt’s scholarship in Brokamp v. James, a recent case involving a First Amendment challenge to professional licensing in the telemedicine/online mental health counseling context.
May 31, 2023
Sankalp Bhatnagar, a senior researcher with Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab, has been awarded a Bridges Fellowship by Northeastern University’s Center for Design (CfD).
May 30, 2023
Vanity Fairlooks to Professor Jeremy Paul for his opinion on the debate over Supreme Court ethics: “I think the possibility of reform is real. [But] I also think the question of what that reform would take is hard to say.”
May 30, 2023
April English ’00, chief secretary to Governor Maura Healey ’98, and Stesha Emmanuel ’11, a partner at McCarter & English in Boston, will be honored by the Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys (MBWA) at the organization’s annual awards celebration on June 3. English has been selected to receive the Justice Geraldine S. Hines Public Service Award, which recognizes a Black woman attorney in the Commonwealth who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to public service and dedication to advancing civil and human rights. Emmanuel will be presented with the Ida B. Wells Award, in recognition of her contribution to the Massachusetts legal community.
May 25, 2023
Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, says the nascent marketing for sports betting has been more effective than the early campaigns for cigarette smoking.
May 25, 2023
Listen back: Professor Katie Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, was interviewed by NPR’s Morning Edition for a segment on in vitro gametogenesis (IVG).
May 22, 2023
The Supreme Court’s Andy Warhol decision has vast implications for the so-called “fair use” defense in the world of visual art, says Professor Jeremy Paul.