“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”
“Even if chiefs see an officer using excessive force or know that an officer has repeated complaints filed against them, it's difficult for the chief to discipline them because the union-controlled arbitration process overturns the verdict," Professor Deborah Ramirez, an advocate for a professional liability insurance system for police offers, tells USA TODAY.
“I don’t think whatever gains women have made in the workplace and in political representation are guaranteed,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New Yorker. ”If the Court moved us back to the nineteen-fifties in terms of access to contraception and abortion, well then, I think we would have some of the same social and economic consequences we had then.”
Mark Gottlieb '93, executive director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells NBC News Now “there’s quite a reckoning still to come,” for E-cigarette maker Juul Labs. The company has agreed to pay $438.5 million in a settlement with 33 states and one territory over marketing its product to teens.
“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” Professor Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Washington Post. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is also false.”
Professor Margaret Burnham's new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, has been named a finalist in the nonfiction category for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards!
“Massachusetts already has one of the most highly utilized involuntary commitment systems in the entire country,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells WBUR. “Thousands of people are involuntarily committed every year and those people by and large are worse off when they come out than when they went in.”
"Drug-induced homicide cases are counterproductive to Good Samaritan laws, which protect people who seek medical assistance during an overdose," Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Health in Justice Action Lab, tells VICE.
“Jackson’s career models all that can be possible for young Black women,” Simone Yhap ’22, national chair of the National Black Law Students Association, tells The Washington Post. “She has broken the glass ceiling that others have imposed upon us, and we’re stepping all over these shards.”
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.