Professor Wendy Parmet Among Public Health and Law Experts Who Issue Guidelines for US Response to “Inevitable” Widespread Coronavirus Transmission

Widespread transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus within the United States is “inevitable” and a successful response to the epidemic must protect the health and human rights of everyone in the country, over 450 public health, human rights, and legal experts and organizations warned today in an open letter to Vice President Mike Pence and other government officials.

The Trouble I've Seen

Featuring the work of Northeastern University School of Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), "The Trouble I've Seen" follows the investigations of three harrowing civil rights cold cases. Founded by Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ takes on cases that both horrify us and beg us to correct the record, to search for reconciliation and remediation for families and communities that even decades later shudder in the shadows of bigotry and injustice. "The Trouble I've Seen" is narrated by Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP.

Video of Officer’s Collapse After Handling Powder Draws Skepticism

"This kind of misinformation is definitely harmful,” Professor @LeoBeletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The New York Times. "If people think that they might die of an overdose from providing emergency assistance — that might cost lives.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/san-diego-police-overdose-fentanyl.html

Domestic Violence Within the Ranks: How Recent Allegations are Shaking Faith in BPD

"Here’s an organization that’s committed to protecting the public but what they actually did is protect someone who had multiple allegations of severe domestic violence from multiple victims. As someone who’s done this work, I’m not surprised and I’m horrified,” Professor Margo Lindauer ‘07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute tells The Boston Globe.