If we had easier and more affordable access to high-quality, evidence-based physical and mental health care, many, many fewer people would die, Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior fellow at Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Newsweek. "And it would also reduce the stigma toward seeking treatment for a lot of the problems that fall into the bucket of deaths of despair."
The latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine is now available online. The Winter ’20 issue, featuring a cover story on the social implications of technology and healthcare for civil rights and historically marginalized populations, includes articles on criminal justice reform, public health impact litigation and much more.
Any US version of GDPR would, in practice, be something of a GDPR-lite, writes Professor Woodrow Hartzog in a co-authored op-ed for Wired.
Congrats to the law school’s magazine, Northeastern Law, which won Honors in the Mercury Excellence Awards 2019-2020 for magazines — overall presentation: non-profit. Read the latest issue now!
In the Hartford Courant, professors Jeremy Paul and Wendy Parmet write, “Battling diseases and other threats requires hard, unglamorous work by experts who have the trust of the community and the resources necessary to get the job done. Just the kind of efforts that don’t translate easily into sound bites or tweets.”
“To rally around Chauvin and say, ‘This is policing as normal, this is acceptable practice,’ would risk greater harm to the reputation of the police than basically just coming forward and saying, ‘This is not who we are, and this is not what we do,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells VICE News. “I think all of them are aligned with coming forward and saying Chauvin is outside of our group: that he is a bad apple but we are a good tree.”
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.