May 16, 2022
“If there is no legalized way of abortion in these cases, many women are going to face very significant health problems and be desperate,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Washington Post. “And doctors are going to be put in untenable and unethical situations.”
May 16, 2022
“Both Merck and Pfizer have reserved for themselves all the high-income countries and virtually all of the upper-middle-income countries and even some lower-middle-income countries,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. Professor Baker recently submitted a legal brief in support of the Dominican Republic’s petition to allow the distribution of the generic version of Paxlovid.
May 16, 2022
Urvashi Vaid ’83, a legendary leader and visionary in the fight for LGBTQ+ and civil rights, died of cancer on May 14, 2022, at her home in New York City.
May 13, 2022
"There are greater risks to health if you’re getting medication and you don’t know where it’s coming from," Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News. “What we’re really going to have is chaos."
May 13, 2022
The Reverend Willie Bodrick II ’20 will be honored with a Doctor of Community Service at Northeastern University’s Commencement exercises later today!
May 12, 2022
“The questions raised by the mask mandate cases, as with so many other Covid-19 cases, is not which policy is correct. It’s who should answer that question? Judges or health officials?,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an opinion piece for Bloomberg Law.
May 12, 2022
“Judicial review is an important deterrent against overreach and abuse,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Politico.
May 12, 2022
The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to welcome its summer scholars, Rowan Laidlaw ’23 and Edward Rickford ’24.
May 11, 2022
There's a lot of precedent for the idea of term limits for judges." On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed talks about the likelihood and options for reform to the structure of the Supreme Court.
May 10, 2022
Mary Lemay ’22, Maya McCann ’22, Bavani Sridhar and Milo Vieland ’22 have been awarded Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellowships, one of the most prestigious and competitive post-graduate legal fellowships in the country.
May 10, 2022
“The idea that the FDA has had the power since 2009 to ban menthol cigarettes and is only acting now in 2022 means that they’ve let 13 years slip,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute. “But better late than never.”
May 09, 2022
Simone Yhap ’22, the 55th National Chair of the National Black Law Students Association, is profiled by News@Northeastern. “Whenever I’m leading something or engaged in something, I ask, ‘How is this positively impacting the communities, not only that I’m a part of, but more importantly, that I’m serving?’,” says Yhap who has secured a post-graduation job as an intellectual property litigation associate at Mintz Levin.