“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.
Professor Brook Baker responds to Costa Rica’s request for an emergency COVID-19 Technology Intellectual Property Pool (TIPP) for all countries: “Simply put, no exclusive rights should stand in the way of governments’ and the global community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Amelia Caramadre ’21, a legal fellow with Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice in Action Lab, talks to Filter magazine about the work the lab is doing “to end the practice of preferentially prescribing parolees any one drug over another, and mandating or denying certain addiction medications.”
It’s the impulse to do something to combat the opioid crisis that has fueled the recent increase in drug-induced homicide prosecutions nationwide, Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Appeal. "These prosecutions take resources away from more effective interventions."
"Preemptive voluntary tech transfer by companies and capacity investments by governments could and should begin now, even as the waiver text is being negotiated," writes Professor Brook Baker '76 in his latest blog for Health GAP.
“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.
“Biometric information is permanent,” cautions Professor Waldman, director of NUSL's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC). "And once you give a company your #BiometricData, it could track you forever with that information.”
“There’s an entire multi-hundred billion dollar industry of companies you’ve never heard of,” Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), tells Slate. “Their business model is collecting info from all corners of the internet and selling it to people so they can make general conclusions about a population and advertise to it. They say that information is non-identifiable. This is another example of how it’s an utter lie.”