In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."
Listen back: Professor Ari Waldman joined the Cincinnati Edition radio show to discuss his new book, Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
“The license between Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool is disappointingly limited to only 95 countries with just 53% of the world’s population, or 4.1 billion people,” Professor Brook Baker tell STAT.
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.
Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who will be sworn in today as the first Black woman US Attorney for Massachusetts!
With a pandemic upon us, it doesn’t require compassion to ensure that our immigration policies don’t threaten public health, writes Professor Wendy Parmet. "It just requires common sense."
“Real privacy data legislation would protect people regardless of what they choose, and consent to,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The Boston Globe. “This legislation doesn’t seem to offer that… It’s just going to allow business as usual.”
The choosing of Boston’s next police commissioner is an opportunity to reexamine the role of police in Boston, write Professor Deborah Ramirez and Claire Bergstresser in a co-authored piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
“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.