March 05, 2023
“These agencies often seem to try to evade public record disclosure through a web of hyper-technical procedural arguments plus the standard possible ‘interference with ongoing investigation’ policy claims,” said Professor Daniel Medwed in the Press Herald.
March 02, 2023
“If you begin to relax regulatory standards, it causes people to think, this is too fast, we don’t know what the long term effects are,” Professor Brook Baker said in Bloomberg Law, on growing distrust in the Food and Drug Administration processes.
March 01, 2023
Congratulations to Talesha Saint-Marc ’09, who has been appointed to fill the second (recently created) full-time US Magistrate Judge position in the District of New Hampshire. A lifelong resident of New Hampshire, Saint-Marc is currently a shareholder with Bernstein Shur. She’ll join the bench in June, joining Chief Judge Landya McCafferty ’91.
March 01, 2023
"At this point, it's a reasonable doubt defense where Kevin Reddington is going to argue that because of the medication, because of her mental health, she couldn't have premeditated this; it wasn't a deliberate decision," says Professor Daniel Medwed in Bestlife.
February 28, 2023
"It's a little bit like the Wild West out there, where we're still trying to figure out how to regulate this industry," said Professor Daniel Medwed in the GBH Morning Edition about cryptocurrency and the legal landscape surrounding it.
February 28, 2023
Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s Racial Redress and Reparations Lab participated in a recent conference hosted by the Black Reparations Project, an initiative of Mills College at Northeastern. “Truth-seeking eventually does lead to material reparation,” said Katie Sandson, program director of the Racial Redress and Reparations Lab. “There might need to be more creative strategies in different places.”
February 28, 2023
“It doesn’t seem like there’s a sense of urgency with this,” Professor Leo Beletsky says in the Chicago Sun Times about the ongoing Adderall shortage that is likely to lead people to alternative stimulants, “It seems like we really haven’t learned our lesson from the opioid story.”
February 28, 2023
"One strategy the FTC employs is to make an example of one of several bad actors in the hopes that others will fall in line and adjust approaches,” Professor Alexandra J. Roberts adds in Law.com about a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe of 'review hijacking' in e-commerce.
February 28, 2023
"Under the Massachusetts Constitution, history does not act as a straitjacket to preclude expanded protections for previously marginalized groups, such as women or minorities," writes Professor Martha Davis in her latest blog for the Brennan Center for Justice.
February 27, 2023
Northeastern Law student members of the school’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) had much to celebrate at the Northeast Region Black Law Students Association (NEBLSA) 55th Regional Convention in February. Two moot court teams — Cecile Tchoujan ’24 and Kimberly Wyllie ’24 and Melissa Niles ’24 and Sebastien Philemon ’24 — advanced beyond the first round of the Northeast Regional Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition.
February 26, 2023
Congratulations to Willie Bodrick, II ’20 who has been appointed by Governor Maura Healey '98 with other Black leaders from across Massachusetts to serve on the new Advisory Council for Black Empowerment. "As Sr. Pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church and President and CEO of The American City Coalition, I look forward to ensuring that equity, access, opportunity are realized," said Bodrick.
February 22, 2023
Congratulations to CRRJ Director Margaret Burnham, whose book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Professor Burnham’s book is a paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy.