After a 42-year career, our beloved Professor James Rowan is retiring from Northeastern Law, where he taught and mentored thousands of students as director of clinical programs and director of the Poverty Law and Practice Clinic.
“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.”
Following the partial disclosure on Sunday of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report that cleared Trump of collusion, the House of Representatives is likely to demand the release of any underlying documents and testimony from various players, including Mueller himself, says Professor Michael Meltsner.
Urvashi Vaid ’83, president and founder of the Vaid group, was honored as a Woman of Moral Courage at the Auburn Seminary’s Lives of Commitment virtual celebration on April 29.
Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law's Immigrant Justice Clinic, joined WGN Radio's Legal Face-Off podcast, to discuss recent and upcoming Supreme Court immigration rulings.
In a policy brief for The People’s Vaccine, Professor Brook Baker outlines the arguments for government-led, open technology transfer and equitable access to Covid-19 vaccine production and distribution.
In the latest issue of Northeastern’s Experience Magazine, Dean James Hackney cites Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic Worldby Fareed Zakaria as a book that has shaped his vision of the future — and given him hope.
“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
“The plan to electrify Boston’s school buses by 2030 “is absolutely the right move,” says Staci Rubin ’10, vice president of environmental justice at the Conservation Law Foundation. “Electric school buses dramatically improve air quality and our children deserve to be in a tailpipe emissions-free vehicle.”
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.”