“It’s mind-boggling that the United States could be at the bottom of the developed world in terms of getting testing kits out and issuing policies that mitigate the disease,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The New Yorker. "We need a much more robust strategy to manage community transmission.”
“People are dropping dead by the thousands [in the opioid epidemic], and we are teetering around the edges,”Professor Leo Beletsky tells Vox Media.
Listen now! Qainat Khan ’20 has produced a four-part series on affordable housing for WBUR Radio Boston. The final episode airs tomorrow and will feature Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand.
Professor Woodrow Hartzog will testify before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation this Wednesday, February 27, as part of a hearing titled, “Policy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States.” The hearing will examine what Congress should do to address risks to consumers and implement data privacy protections for all Americans.
As the Massachusetts Harm Reduction Commission prepares to release its final report on safe on consumption sites, Professor Leo Beletsky, a member of the 15-person panel, comments for The Boston Globe: "Our Commonwealth has been on the vanguard of advancing a public-health approach...We’ve done a lot of very pioneering work that moves the needle on health care toward more public health approach, so it actually fits in with that overall paradigm.”
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH's Morning Edition to discuss recent and upcoming developments at the Mass. SJC, including last week’s notable opinion interpreting the “anti-bribery” regulations of Massachusetts state alcohol laws.
Richard Burns ’80, former executive director of the NYC LGBT Community Center, is offering a steady hand as interim CEO of Lambda Legal, which was led by Kevin Cathcart ’82 until his retirement in 2016.
“This may be the rare situation where this kind of order is necessary,” Professor Parmet, faculty director of NUSL's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New York Times. “But in many of these cases, the devil is in the details.”
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The New York Times that the introduction of more conservative crime control elements could result in renewed pressure on prosecutors to win convictions and “that’s all the more reason for there to be greater transparency and greater accountability.” Medwed is one of a group of six law professors who have tried to strengthen the disciplinary process for prosecuting attorneys by making complaints public.
In an op-ed co-authored for The Boston Globe, Professor Deborah Ramirez and Marcus Wraight ’18 make the case for mandatory individual liability insurance for police