December 30, 2025
Listen back: Chase Strangio ’10, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, joined the Interesting Times with Ross Douthat podcast to discuss policies and attitudes toward young people who want to transition.
December 28, 2025
“It isn’t uncommon for people or entities to buy up patent rights and use them to request settlements,” Professor Alexandra Roberts tells The Wall Street Journal. “Doing so with trademarks, especially against bigger companies, is less common.”
December 25, 2025
In an interview for Defence24.com, Professor Zinaida Miller examines what President Trump’s transactional approach to diplomacy reveals about his policies toward the Middle East and their broader implications.
December 23, 2025
Three Northeastern Law students have been awarded two-year Skadden Fellowships, among the most prestigious awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law. Anna Luttrell ’26, Mack Makishima ’26 and Rose Mendelsohn ’26 are among just 34 fellows selected nationwide for this high honor.
December 22, 2025
“It's not just one or two products that are being used for off-label use,” Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, co-director of the Amy J. Reed Medical Device Safety Collaborative, tells The Lever. “Once a company gets product approval . . . that's all it really takes to then initiate this process of suggesting, 'Hey, maybe we can use it for this off-label purpose, or that off-label purpose.'”
December 19, 2025
Prosecutors in the Brian Walshe murder trial “did an excellent job of introducing circumstantial evidence and providing the breadcrumbs that led the jury down the path toward finding premeditation,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
December 18, 2025
Professor Daniel Medwed comments for CNN on the Brian Walshe murder trial: “I think the prosecution did as good a job as possible to allude to premeditation, given the absence of the body for an autopsy & the absence of any direct evidence about cause of death.”
December 16, 2025
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Assembly that courts tend to view recantations with caution: “Often recantation cases are ones that prosecutors are skeptical of because they think maybe someone got to the witness, and maybe the witness is feeling intimidated, or maybe they, for whatever reason, begin to doubt the credibility of that witness now.”
December 15, 2025
Professor PatriciaWilliams will receive the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups’ Impact Legacy Award at the AALS annual conference in New Orleans in January.
December 11, 2025
“It is a sad commentary that, on this anniversary of the Civil Rights Division, the Trump administration has chosen to eliminate a regulation that for nearly 60 years has helped root out illegal race and national origin discrimination by recipients of federal funds,” said Christine Stoneman, a Northeastern University law and policy fellow and one of more than 200 former Justice Department Civil Rights Division employees who signed an open letter calling the Trump administration out for undermining the work and mission of the division.
December 11, 2025
Commenting for The Verge, Professor Alexandra Roberts notes that “Operation Bluebird has a solid argument that X has abandoned the rights to the Twitter marks.” She also points to the role of residual goodwill—when a trademark can persist even after the owner stops using it.
December 11, 2025
Listen: Professor Daniel Medwed joined KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast to discuss the Luigi Mangione trial and the challenges of selecting a fair jury in an era when high-profile cases unfold in real time across millions of screens.