“For a long time, the narrative around climate change has been that this happens somewhere else,” Professor Alexandra Meise, tells News@Northeastern. “In the past couple of years, there’s starting to be a real realization that climate change has come home.”
“Since Roberts became chief justice, almost all of the decisions are issued on behalf of Catholics or Evangelicals,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells News@Northeastern.
“COVID-19 has had a much bigger footprint than we have estimated so far,” says Professor Brook Baker ‘76.
A ruling in favor of the independent state legislature doctrine would have a lasting impact, ensuring one-party rule and rendering elections “virtually meaningless,” according to Professors Michael Meltsner, Jeremy Paul and Dan Urman.
Check out Professor Brook Baker’s latest blog for Health Gap.
The major takeaway from Human Rights in Global Health is the need to understand the history, process, attitudes, and struggles that have either been overcome or continue to act as barriers to full integration of health policies in international law, writes Jennifer Huer, managing director of NUSL's Center for Health Policy and Law, in a book review for the Human Rights at Home Blog.
What happens when the people we entrust with our lives and well-being compromise their credibility with a single photo? Professor Margaret Burnham, director of NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ), shares her take on the recent blackface controversies.
“We need to understand that doing nothing isn’t working either, that this is a very complicated but very distorted marketplace and that the lack of intervention by the government is not working,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Huntington News. “I think it will be in the interest of the drug companies, actually, not only the patients, to negotiate in good faith and come up with something that can work for everybody.”
In his latest contribution to the Health GAP blog, Professor Brook Baker provides an analysis of the Global Fund’s target for its upcoming replenishment cycle.
In an interview with MIT Sloan, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, the new (and first-ever) deputy director of energy justice at the US Department of Energy, talks about how she develops and works with big ideas.