July 06, 2022
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Brian Carlisle has been appointed dean of students and assistant dean for academic affairs, effective July 18.
July 05, 2022
Professor Dick Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, predicts the tobacco industry will fight tooth and nail at every step of the process to stop the FDA from passing a proposed regulation to create a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes and other tobacco products.
July 04, 2022
”Coming out of [Thursday’s ruling], it will be harder to enact certain broad types of measures that affect how America gets its energy and the energy markets more broadly,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells News@Northeastern. ”But that doesn’t mean we can’t take smaller steps to still advance toward that goal....What’s most important is that we continue to act to reduce our emissions outputs. There is zero time to be idle.”
July 04, 2022
Professors Hemanth Gundavaram and Rachel Rosenbloom react to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that clears the way for the Biden administration to end the controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as “Remain in Mexico.”
July 04, 2022
”This decision has opened up uncertainty and could well mean that companies have shot themselves in the foot,“ Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells STAT.
July 04, 2022
”This is what I have trained for—right this moment—where your scholarship, your research have an impact at a national level,” says Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, who was recently promoted to director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Energy Department. “I get to design the energy system of the future, based on what I know, and I am learning every day.”
July 01, 2022
“There is a real question about Juul’s ability to contribute much to a settlement if there’s a strong possibility its income is substantially curtailed,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells Insurance Journal. “That has reduced the settlement value for the enormous pool of cases brought against Juul.”
July 01, 2022
In an article penned for the International City/County Management Association, Sarah Peck '96, director of UnitedOnGuns, outlines some of the vital resources the initiative has developed especially for city officials.
July 01, 2022
Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul tell News@Northeastern the anti-abortion cause, despite its institutional foothold on the Supreme Court, will diminish in strength given time—and that reproductive rights will, in a long drawn-out political and legal struggle, win out.
July 01, 2022
Watch: In a live interview with NBC Boston, Professor Alexandra Meise explains some of the broader implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling curbing the federal government’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
June 30, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed, a criminal law expert, and a team of five other law professors have prevailed in a federal court ruling that vindicated crucial First Amendment rights and upheld the use of holding prosecutors accountable for misconduct through publishing disciplinary complaints against them.
June 29, 2022
In her latest piece for the Human Rights at Home Blog, Professor Martha Davis addresses Justice Alito’s dismissal of an equal protection challenge to abortion restrictions.