Professor Daniel Medwed joins WGBH News to discuss recent developments at the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court: I think the most notable recent decision concerns a Massachusetts law that punishes people for profiting from sex trafficking — so-called pimps."
A jury anywhere in the country might have decided that this young man should be executed, but at least would have a sense that it was a group of people who were dispassionate, Professor Michael Meltsner tells Boston 25 News. Meltsner has signed on to an amicus brief supporting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a new death penalty trial.
Former SJC Associate Justice Fernande R.V. Duffly, currently a visiting professor of the practice at NUSL, and professors Daniel Medwed and Michael Meltsner, are among eight attorneys and legal scholars who have signed on to an amicus brief supporting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a new death penalty trial.
Professor Daniel Medwed joins WGBH's Morning Edition to discuss how the federal impeachment process works and obstacles that may stand in the way of an impeachment of the president.
In an op-ed co-authored for Teen Vogue, Genia Blaser ’11, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Defense Project, offers actionable advice on advocating for immigrant rights during Joe Biden's administration.
“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.
“We need to be thinking much more boldly,” says Professor Leo Beletsky, who presented his proposal that the City of Boston should consider commandeering private property for temporary shelter use during a virtual hearing last week.
“It sounds like the defense lawyers are doing the best they can with less than ideal facts,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The LA Times. “Being an effective trial lawyer is managing the rules of evidence but also managing the narrative, so that you create sympathy and support for your side in a way that’s almost complementary to the evidence.”
In an op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Carol Steinberg '80 calls on the Massachusetts Legislature to fulfill the promise of the ADA in its 30th anniversary year: "We must rally together to see that H.4425 is passed this session."
In a piece for SCOTUSblog, Professor Blaine Saito writes about the issues at stake in CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service, a tax case to be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow that has “great implications for jurisdiction, administrative law and the tax system overall.”