March 28, 2023
As chief secretary for Gov. Maura Healey ’98, April English ’00 now oversees the administration’s efforts to fill positions on boards and commissions throughout state government. English worked for 20 years in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, including positions as an assistant attorney general and chief of organization development and inclusion during much of Healey’s time as attorney general.
March 28, 2023
Professor Claudia Haupts’ latest article with Mason Marks, MD, JD, is “AI-generated Medical Advice—GPT and Beyond,” published in
JAMA. The article surveys the medical applications of a generative pretrained transformer (GPT) and considers whether new forms of regulation are necessary to minimize safety and legal risks to patients and clinicians.
March 28, 2023
West Academic has published the third edition of Human Rights Advocacy in the United States, the only law school casebook focused on human rights advocacy in the United States. “We hope that this will be an important resource for students and teachers looking to engage with the full scope of human rights tools available to US advocates,” said Davis, a faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy.
March 27, 2023
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and trademark law, has been awarded the International Trademark Association’s Ladas Memorial Award in the professional category for her article, “A Poetics of Trademark Law,” forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
March 27, 2023
Professor Daniel Medwed discusses the implications of race on the death penalty and the criminal legal system. And efforts to correct some of these problems such as the racial justice act in California and a recent case out of Riverside. "The race of the victim, not the defendant steers cases in the direction of death" said Medwed.
March 24, 2023
Professor Alexandra J. Roberts comments on the MLB dropping the 'Boston' trademark application, "The USPTO is going to say, 'You're not going to put forth something that's capable of being a trademark and you're not showing that you're using it in a trademark way," said Roberts in The Boston Globe.
March 24, 2023
Professor Richard Daynard, President of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director of PHAI, comment on the dangers of the expansion of mobile gambling in Massachussetts. “It's not like smoking 10 or 15 or 20 cigarettes a day..[people can] get a whole bunch of hits a minute, or an hour, or many hits an hour” said Daynard in the Milford Daily News.
March 23, 2023
The administration of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey ’98 has appointed Staci Rubin JD/MPH/MELP ’10 to a full-time position as a commissioner on the Commonwealth Utilities Commission, which oversees the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU), which, in turn, oversees electric and gas utilities, energy siting and public safety.
March 23, 2023
Professor Kara Swanson comments on a recent report that showed women continue to be underrepresented inventors across numerous countries and hold fewer patents on innovations than their male counterparts. "It is important to draw attention to it, because without concerted effort, female creativity will remain outside of patent systems," Swanson told Law360.
March 22, 2023
For World Water Day 2023, the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) collaborated with the University of Miami Human Rights Clinic and the Indigenous Safe Housing Center on two new, accessible fact sheets on the human right to water.
March 22, 2023
Professor Deborah Ramirez and Governor Maura Healey ’98 were honored for their impactful work and dedication to uplifting women by the Massachusetts Trial Court as part of the court’s third annual Women’s History Month celebration. In her remarks at the ceremony, Ramirez recounted her mother’s words to her many years ago, “Do not ever let anyone else define who you are or what you can do. Never give up on your dreams! You want to be a lawyer? Si se puede. Yes you can.”
March 22, 2023
Professor Alexandra J. Roberts explains the legal hurdles of MLB teams' trademark applications for the names of cities, "[The Red Sox’ application is] likely to be met with a failure to function refusal, because the specimens submitted show only ornamental use of ‘Boston,’ not use as a source indicator,” in Sportico.