Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined @GBH's Morning Edition to discuss the case of Inyoung You, a former Boston College student indicted with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the suicide of her boyfriend.
“There is no good reason to provide hundreds of in-game betting opportunities and relentless advertising other than to recruit and exploit people who are at risk of a gambling problem,” write Professors Richard Daynard and Mark Gottlieb ’93 in a co-authored op-ed for The Boston Globe.
Rather than contain an epidemic, harsh, coercive policies often scapegoat already-marginalized populations and intensify panic rather than quell it, write Professor Wendy Parmet and Visiting Scholar Michael Sinha in a co-authored op-ed for The Washington Post.
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, is profiled as the co-founder of one of the most important networking organizations in Massachusetts’ fast-growing Latino community. “We could see there was a lot of talent,” she tells The Boston Globe. “But oftentimes, it was not very visible to those who could open a door for them.”
“Quarantines and travel bans have a really, really ugly history, Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian. "" Everyone always wants to do it when people are scared. But the downsides are high and the risks are high.”"
Commenting for PolitiFact, Professor Martha Davis cautions that the text of any law alone fails to capture the full picture of abortion availability in Europe.
“There is a very strong presumption that claiming innocence is a sign of denial,” Professor Daniel Medwed, a founding member of the board of directors of the Innocence Network, tells The New York Times.
Listen back: Professor Brook Baker '76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, talks to NPR’s Here & Now about the news that Johnson & Johnson will work with rival Merck to ramp up production of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
In January, Professor Susan Montgomery spoke before the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates in favor of a resolution encouraging courts to take a consistent approach to the "fair use" doctrine, a defense to copyright infringement that permits use of copyrighted works for free without obtaining a license or permission in appropriate circumstances. Montgomery, a member of the ABA’s section of Intellectual Property Law, contended that the resolution addresses an issue that is faced often by both copyright owners and users.