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.
June 28, 2022
Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law's Immigrant Justice Clinic, joined WGN Radio's Legal Face-Off podcast, to discuss recent and upcoming Supreme Court immigration rulings.
June 27, 2022
SCOTUS justices did not commit perjury, says Professor Dan Urman, but their careful lawyerly phrasing demonstrated their stance on Roe v Wade.
June 27, 2022
“Even if chiefs see an officer using excessive force or know that an officer has repeated complaints filed against them, it's difficult for the chief to discipline them because the union-controlled arbitration process overturns the verdict," Professor Deborah Ramirez, an advocate for a professional liability insurance system for police offers, tells USA TODAY.
June 26, 2022
“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”
June 25, 2022
Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul react to the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
June 25, 2022
Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News it’s unclear whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition on mifepristone: “We don’t have a Supreme Court decision on [this] point, and even if we did, we have a Supreme Court willing to overturn decisions.”
June 25, 2022
Professor Martha Davis tells PolitiFact that the lack of uniformity in abortion laws sets the U.S. apart from other countries: “Most developed countries have a national standard for access to abortion or consistency across subnational entities rather than wide variations in laws amongst states.”
June 24, 2022
Does the Supreme Court’s ruling on gun restrictions put other regulations at risk? “There's no question that it does,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells USA Today. ”But it remains unclear which regulations are most likely vulnerable. The answer to that question….may come down to two members of the court’s conservative wing: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”
June 24, 2022
“The whole world is better off if we all have green technology,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells In These Times. “If rich countries get to control green technology to prioritize their use in high-income countries, that’s good for their profits, but it’s not good for the world.”