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.
Listen back: On NPR’s All Things Considered, Professor Deborah Ramirez talks about her proposal to make personal liability insurance mandatory for individual police officers.
There’s been a troubling lack of consistency in messaging and policy from Washington and that helps to sow the seeds of rumors,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Mother Jones. “Trust is an absolutely critical ingredient to an effective public health response. If people don’t trust the leadership, that’s a bad situation. Unfortunately, we’re in that bad situation.”
Northeastern University is closely tracking the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and university leaders are making contingency plans and decisions in accordance with global public health authorities.
Professor Leo Beletsky tells the National Geographic that campaigns to get nonviolent drug offenders released during the pandemic may not be sufficient. “Prisoner re-entry into regular society is difficult and dangerous from a health perspective, even during normal times,” he says.
Unless timely action is taken, South Africa could be faced with a new form of “pharmaceutical apartheid,” like that experienced in the early days of the AIDS response, when access to medicines here was blocked by decisions made by rich countries and pharmaceutical companies in the Global North, writes Professor Brook Baker in a co-authored op-ed for Spotlight.
There are a few, still weak, glimmers of hope regarding the nation’s response to dangers created by our immigration policies, writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, in her latest blog for Health Affairs. "If we are to learn the lessons of this moment, these small glimmers must give rise to a new approach to protecting the health of immigrants.
“If one state opens up— whatever that means—in a way that the other states are not ready to do, it could cause a catastrophe,” says Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “The virus doesn’t pay a toll on the George Washington Bridge.”
Chase Strangio ’10 and Carmelyn Malalis ’01, both 2020 Stonewall Awardees and nationally recognized LGBT legal activists, share their journeys and hopes for the future.
“As the memory of epidemics faded, individual rights became much more important than collective responsibility,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New York Times.