July 22, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The New York Times that the introduction of more conservative crime control elements could result in renewed pressure on prosecutors to win convictions and “that’s all the more reason for there to be greater transparency and greater accountability.” Medwed is one of a group of six law professors who have tried to strengthen the disciplinary process for prosecuting attorneys by making complaints public.
July 22, 2022
“We are at the first stage of a tsunami of litigation,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law as Georgia's abortion law adds to an ongoing fight over the boundaries between states and the federal government.
July 21, 2022
Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, doesn’t buy the idea that Ghislaine Maxwell served in court as a proxy for prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein. “He would not be able to do what he did without her," she tells News@Northeastern.
July 20, 2022
“Claiming that the lack of enforcement of other, unrelated ordinances somehow augurs in favor of overlooking this one strikes me as a red herring,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe.
July 20, 2022
“Big Pharma’s unwillingness to acknowledge that the existing IP regime did not just enable innovation — it also produced artificially restricted supplies, price profiteering, and grossly inequitable distribution first of vaccines and tests and now of Covid medicines as well,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
July 20, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has issued a statement following the U.S. Senate bipartisan confirmation of Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 to serve as director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): “There is no more effective champion for building an equitable, just, clean energy economy than Shalanda. We are thrilled that she is willing to serve the American people and we are incredibly fortunate to have her in the DOE family.”
July 20, 2022
“Mayors play an outsized role in a city’s response to a mass shooting. Yet, city leaders rarely think about their role, let alone prepare for it, until the unimaginable happens,” writes Sarah Peck ’96, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, in an op-ed for The Hill. “That’s why my colleagues and I researched six cities that have responded to a mass shooting.”
July 19, 2022
In “Diversity’s Pandemic Distractions,” 32 Health Matrix 149 (2022), Professor Jonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of the idea of diversity in analyzing and responding to emergent health crises has the potential to distract us from considering deeper historical and structural formations contributing to racial health disparities.
July 15, 2022
Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has submitted two shadow reports to the UN Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which will be reviewing U.S. compliance with the Race Convention in August.
July 15, 2022
Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) and NuLawLab has collaborated with the Northeastern History Department to design a unique resource for the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief: an interactive map of indigenous religious rights worldwide.
July 14, 2022
Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project and one of the nation’s leading litigators for reproductive freedom, has been named by Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law as its Practitioner-in-Residence for 2023.
July 13, 2022
“Since Roberts became chief justice, almost all of the decisions are issued on behalf of Catholics or Evangelicals,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells News@Northeastern.