Professor Wendy Parmet joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how our attitudes are shaping the response to the pandemic: “Three of the top threats to public health amidst the current global crisis are hubris, isolationism and distrust.”
Watch now: Joan Fortin ’96, Chief Executive Officer of Bernstein Shur, is featured on The Portland Press Herald’s Like a Boss webinar series and shares her tips managing, adapting and problem solving amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH’s Morning Edition to talk about the new charges against the officers in the George Floyd killing and how they could play out in court.
There's not a lot of good history on [the emergency temporary standard], nor is there a lot of judicial review that provides guidance, Professor Emily Spieler tells Law360. "Calls for emergency standards have often been denied, including during the Obama administration. But then we've not had a pandemic before."
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBHNews' Morning Edition to talk about how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the Mass. court system: "It's a whole new world."
The courts and law enforcement are just a piece of this broader societal puzzle, and [in] that puzzle, the general theme is triage, Professor Daniel Medwed tells Insider.
“The courts are trying to use video and teleconferencing to keep the wheels of justice turning,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. “What sort of remains to be seen is not which cases are emergencies, but how is technology up to this crisis."
Mass. AG Maura Healey '98 joined WBUR's All Things Considered to answer questions about labor and consumer rights in the age of the coronavirus.
Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, provides expert commentary on the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.
Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 will deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Reunion Gala Dinner on Saturday, October 24, as we honor the classes of 1950s, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00, 2005, ’10 and ’15.