The debate over accountability aside, making choices to help combat climate change is a necessity, says Professor Alexandra Meise. “If we are going to meet the targets that experts say are necessary in order to keep global temperature rises below that magic 1.5 degrees Celsius that they call for to avoid cataclysmic consequences, then we do need every little bit that we can get.”
Simone Yhap ’22, the 55th National Chair of the National Black Law Students Association, is profiled by News@Northeastern. “Whenever I’m leading something or engaged in something, I ask, ‘How is this positively impacting the communities, not only that I’m a part of, but more importantly, that I’m serving?’,” says Yhap who has secured a post-graduation job as an intellectual property litigation associate at Mintz Levin.
Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Geneva Health Filesthat a negative precedent is being set with respect to transparency for public resources spent in procuring COVID-19 therapeutics: “Not only has the world allowed biopharmaceutical companies to maintain monopoly control over the supply, price, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, it has also consistently allowed them to achieve their profiteering under a veil of secrecy.”
As technology ushers in new avenues for abuse, Professor Margo Lindauer '07 and Morgan Wilson ’17 of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute share information about what to watch out for this and every month.
“The present Supreme Court is an ideological one that’s not sensitive to opinion polls or popular views,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells News@Northeastern. “I see no evidence that the court is interested in changing the death penalty.”
“For me, being alive means learning, it means being involved,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, who recently celebrated 52 years of teaching at the school of law.
Professor Beth Noveck, director of The Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation at Northeastern University and its partner project, The GovLab, has been named to Apolitical’s list of the 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.
An arrest warrant against Putin doesn’t guarantee a conviction, says Professor Alexandra Meise, an international law expert. Charging him for war crimes could take years.
In her contribution to Divided We Fall's Civility Without Borders series, Professor Martha Davis argues that ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights (ICESCR) would benefit the United States both domestically and internationally.
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.”