“Whenever you have something that cannot be enforced widely, if it’s enforced sporadically, that raises concerns about discrimination and profiling,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells City & State. “Who among the people driving up I-95 are the ones who get stopped?”

“Travel advisories are themselves deeply problematic,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Boston Globe. “The dilemma is showing up the disaster of what’s been happening: the fact that we don’t have a federal policy, and no consistency among the states.”

Facial recognition technology is so inherently destructive that the safest approach is to pull it out root and stem,"" Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells NBC News."

In a co-authored essay for the Brookings Institute, Professor Woodrow Hartzog outlines the dangers of deferring to tech firms to respond to COVID-19.

Thousands of Americans held in close confinement may have sickened or died in institutions under CDC guidance, writes Professor Michael Meltsner in a letter to The Boston Globe.

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. 

There’s no grand idea that will end poverty,” says Betty Francisco '98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. “But rather a collection of ideas, solutions and players in ecosystems that work cohesively and collaboratively around achieving racial equity outcomes. That’s how we can begin breaking the cycle of poverty.”

Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Future Focused,' Creativity On Demand' and 'Full Speed Ahead. Read it online today!

Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about a new bill that would decriminalize drug possession and use in Massachusetts.

Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”