December 07, 2022
“If most speech is actually taking place on a private platform, then maybe we ought to rethink how we interpret and apply the First Amendment in these spaces,” says Professor Claudia Haupt.
December 06, 2022
“We needed to both win the ballot and now we have to win in the courts, and luckily we can continue our fight in the courts because we won the ballot,” Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, tells The Boston Globe.
December 02, 2022
“There are hurdles for Banksy to legally protect his work and to prevent something like the Guess controversy from happening again,” Professor Alexandra Roberts tells News@Northeastern. “It’s really messy.”
November 30, 2022
“Technicalities are often what keep the actually innocent behind bars,” writes Professor Daniel Medwed in a piece for TIME magazine. “The system exalts finality over accuracy, the appearance of justice over genuine justice.”
November 29, 2022
Where do universal human rights begin? Professor Martha Davis joined the Carr Center’s Justice Matters podcast, to speak about local movements and human rights cities.
November 23, 2022
Succeeding in trademark suits against the individuals behind Twitter spoof accounts is “not out of the question,” Professor Alexandra Roberts tells Bloomberg Law.
November 22, 2022
Professor Jeremy Paul recently joined a panel of Northeastern experts to share reflections on the 2022 midterm elections, the forces that affected the results and what the outcomes meant for America going forward. “President Biden has already appointed more judges in his first two years than any president since John Kennedy, including Ketanji Brown Jackson,” he said. “It’s a huge thing that the Democrats continue to control the Senate in case there were to be another Supreme Court vacancy.”
November 22, 2022
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and social media, weighs in on the class action lawsuit against FTX founder and his celebrity backers.
November 21, 2022
“We’re already seeing obviously tremendous strain on the healthcare system right now,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells News@Northeastern . “We seem to be at the cusp of what might be the tripledemic.”
November 19, 2022
”Investment and choices of where to spend money is a reflection of values,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells News@Northeastern . “That also extends internationally.”
November 17, 2022
Professor Martha Davis, an internationally recognized expert on human rights, has been appointed as a 2022-2023 fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
November 17, 2022
“Many of the characters in this book emerged from what I know of a decades-long work in the Civil Rights Movement,” says Professor Michael Meltsner, author of Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?, who will be in conversation with fellow-author Professor Daniel Medwed at the Cambridge Public Library tonight at 6PM.