“It would be an extraordinary failure of public policy for Congress not to reauthorize funding to extend government supported access to vaccines, boosters, tests, and therapeutics,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law.
An innovative, traveling art installation was unveiled at Northeastern’s Cabot Court on October 6, 2022. The project, a partnership between Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and PBS Frontline’s Un(re)solved initiative, uses augmented reality, African American quilt traditions and investigative reporting to bridge the gap between the past and present.
“The current fentanyl situation is really a product of misguided drug policy and its enforcement,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Quartz.
Northeastern News spotlights Terrence Johnson, a 2020 graduate of Northeastern’s Master of Science in Media Advocacy, who has gone on to co-host a new YouTube show produced by WGBH that features analysis and insights about how social media users are engaging with the social, economic and cultural issues of the day.
Accepting political contributions from for-profit prisons, either directly or indirectly from a PAC, strikes me as inconsistent with the objectives of many advocates for prison reform and decarceration,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells the New Boston Post.
Judge Elizabeth Branch’s voting record suggests a “highly conservative approach” that is consistent with the rest of President Trump's judicial appointments, says Professor Michael Meltsner.
“Every city has its own slate of issues,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Intercept. “But there is this common theme and common ground here that does relate to the police in the United States having too much power, being too heavily weaponized, and being too protected by their unions."
“I think what the young people who are in the streets today are saying is, it’s not the world we want to live in. We want to create our own world. We want to create a world that is responsive to our understandings of what it means to be human,” says Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ). “And we want a justice system.”
Professor Deborah Ramirez joins the PowerPLAY podcast to make the case for mandatory professional liability insurance for police officers.
“The protests are about the lingering and still accumulating costs of American racial ideology and the harms ensuing from failure to acknowledge the wrongs, to “call their names”," writes Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), in her latest blog.