Listen back: Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity, (CLIC) joined the Bloomberg Law podcast to discuss the spike in police use of geofence warrants.
"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
"Mayors often don't realize what their role is until a shooting happens in their community," Sarah Peck ’96, director of #UnitedOnGuns, a nonpartisan initiative of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells NPR News. "What we're trying to do is give them the tools they need to understand the magnitude of their role, which starts when the shooting starts and can continue for years."
Listen back: NuLawLab's Dan Jackson '97 and Jules Rochielle Sievert joined the Reimagining Justice podcast to share their insights on the importance of creativity, community and fun in developing legal inventors of the future!
As Massachusetts loosens COVID-19 restrictions, Professor Daniel Medwed joins GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu to talk about the measures that are in place to keep everyone in the courtroom safe during in-person jury trials and how those measures could impact trials.
If there’s not a lot of transparency and trust in the system, in its fairness and equity, then there are always going to be some people to game the system, creating a vicious cycle of inequity, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Axios.
Watch: Professor Brook Baker '76 was interviewed by Boston 25 News on scene yesterday at the Cambridge Moderna demonstration calling for global vaccine equity.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about US intellectual property law and at least one effort underway to get companies to share their vaccine formulas.
“It is unlikely that Garland will keep up Barr’s push for Tsarnaev’s execution, especially since Biden has been so forceful in his opposition to the death penalty at large,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells The Washington Examiner.
On December 1, 2019, Thaddeus Hoffmeister '98 was unanimously selected by the Wyoming, Ohio, City Council to become the city’s first African American mayor.