Listen back: On WYNC’s The Takeaway, Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, describes how survivors of domestic violence are affected by COVID’s impact on the courts.
Professor Deborah Ramirez is quoted in The Boston Globe about a fund that has been set up in memory of her husband, Chief Justice Ralph Gants: “My husband really worked his heart out, trying to rid the criminal justice system of racism and trying to improve access to justice.”
In his latest contribution to SCOTUSblog, Professor Blaine Saito outlines the Argument Summary in CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service.
Congratulations to Chase Strangio ’10, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, who has been named to Vanity Fair's list of Extraordinary Historymakers of 2020!
“The question for the European Commission is: why did it not have a contract with Gilead with an escape clause based on the Solidarity trial outcome?” Professor Brook Baker tells the British Medical Journal. “Regulators and authorities have an ongoing responsibility to ensure safety and efficacy.”
It is decades of disinvestment in the public education of our most vulnerable students that’s keeping students out of classrooms, not teachers unions or uninformed school boards disregarding the experts," writes Professor Jared Nicholson in an op-ed for The Boston Globe.
Professor Margaret Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, has been selected for the longlist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! #NUSLPride
Professor Margaret Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, is reviewed by The New York Times!
“There’s been a number of instances where restrictions have not been closely tailored to the evidence and haven’t been clearly communicated, which has opened the door to misinformation,” Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells the LA Times.
“People in the U.S. have no greater right to health than people elsewhere in the world,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells the Los Angeles Times. “We’re all human. Health is a positive good for everyone. Yet we’re living under a monopoly-based system where giant pharmaceutical corporations make billions in profits at the expense of poor people in poor countries who are denied access to life-saving medicines.”