“Laws can’t be perfect, and they certainly can’t be perfect early in a pandemic," Professor Wendy Parmet tells STAT News . "You can’t expect the state policy to change with every preprint. That would just be madness.” @NUSLHealth @phlawwatch https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/19/politics-is-derailing-a-crucial-debate-over-the-immunity-you-get-from-recovering-from-covid-19
“It’s not enough to criticize the pharmaceutical industry,” Professor Leo Beletksy, faculty director of Health In Justice Action Lab, tells The Guardian. “We should be using the regulatory tools that we have to compel them to act in a different way.”
Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 weighs in on the automation of racial bias in this short film produced by The Economist.
“We’re in like the 1950s in tobacco years when it comes to the gambling industry," Mark Gottlieb '93, executive director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute tells MASSLive.
Morgan Wilson ’17, legal fellow with Northeastern Law's Domestic Violence Institute and director of its Legal Assistance to Victims project, has been honored as a 2021 Changemaker by the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH's Morning Edition to discuss the claims being raised by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team.
“Massachusetts cannot make public health policy based on politically guided statements from the federal government," Professor Leo Beletsky tells Boston Magazine. "It has to chart its own path.”
Watch: Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity and author of Industy Unbound, joined Scott McGrew on NBC's Press:Here, to talk about big tech’s power over congress and society at large.