April 24, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for books published in 2022. Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners was among 12 outstanding books recognized for literary excellence and the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.
April 23, 2023
Professor Alexandra J. Roberts comments on the legal questions concerning Twitter's paid subscription service - Twitter Blue - which verified the accounts of deceased celebrities, in The Washington Post.
April 22, 2023
Professor Wendy Parmet discusses the Supreme Court's decision to block a Texas judge's restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone from taking effect. “What they’re saying is, we’re not going to take this drug off the market” at least until hearing the case on the merits, Parmet said in Bloomberg Law.
April 22, 2023
In celebration of Earth Day 2023, the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy published this conversation with Professor Martha Davis on Environmental Human Rights and Water Security. "I would urge that citizens, non profits, and regional organizations focus on establishing legal structures that will shore up equality protections in the environmental arena," said Davis.
April 21, 2023
”The more rumors and myths there are out there about fentanyl exposure causing overdose in these kinds of casual encounters, the more stressed out and anxious our first responders are,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells NBC Boston. ”I think it's really unfortunate that instead of correcting these myths, a lot of media outlets and a lot of law enforcement agencies have instead proliferated it.”
April 20, 2023
Professor Martha Davis' new piece in the Brennan Center for Justice, "The Greening of State Constitutions," focuses on how courts play an increasingly important role in enforcing states’ environmental rights amendments. "The difficulty of amending the federal Constitution and the current Supreme Court’s use of history to limit rights can leave it unable to speak to contemporary challenges like environmental crises. By expanding the justiciability of environmental rights, states’ Green Amendments are starting to fill that gap," said Davis.
April 20, 2023
Mark Gottlieb ’93, Executive Director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute, comments on a multi-state lawsuit against e-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs. “Our case in Massachusetts was just on behalf of teens and their parents or guardians who became nicotine-dependent as a result of using Juul,” said Gottlieb in The Daily Free Press.
April 20, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham, founder of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and faculty co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, was honored for outstanding research and creative activity of national and international significance at the university’s honors convocation. Burnham is the author By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.
April 20, 2023
“Who gets access to medication should not come down to geography, identity or wealth, nor should government proposals compound existing disadvantages,” writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.
April 19, 2023
Congrats to our grads named to Boston magazine’s list of The 150 Most Influential Bostonians. #1: Maura Healey ’98, Governor of Massachusetts; and #55 Betty Francisco ’98, CEO, Boston Impact Initiative.
April 18, 2023
“The U.S. tends to export some of the worst things that we kind of innovate and involuntary treatment does seem like one of those unfortunate exports,” Professor Beletsky tells The Globe and Mail “This is essentially incarceration rebranded.”
April 17, 2023
Professor Rashida Richardson comments on the implications of using A.I. technologies to teach students, “Often what happens with automation is you see the efficiencies...and then the idea is if we just keep automating, it can scale.” But, she added, “I don’t think the use cases can scale in education in the ways that we would want,” in The New Yorker.