Recent Faculty Scholarship

Check out recent selected faculty publications and learn more about the diverse research interests at Northeastern Law.

LIBBY ADLER
Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Queerness of Political Economies: Genealogies of LGBTQ Law in Cuba and the US (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Gender and Political Economy Roundtable: Revisiting Distributive Analysis,” 49 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 701 (2024).

“From Contamination to Congratulation: The Discursive and Legal Careers of the Homosexual in the U.S. and Cuba.” In Enticements: Queer Legal Studies, eds. J. Fischel and B. Cossman (New York University Press, 2024).

“Marriage as a Hustle: The Evolution of Property Law and the Arrival of Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba,” Symposium on Non-Marriage & the Law, Family Court Review 1 (2024).

HAYAT BEARAT
Associate Professor; Director, Domestic Violence Institute

“Shackled From Birth, How the Family Policing System in the United States Traps Children in a Cycle of Violence.” In The International Handbook of Child Protection: Laws, Rights, Policies and Practices (Springer Nature, forthcoming) (co-author).

“I am Pregnant, but is it my Death Sentence?,” New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy (forthcoming).

“I Thought I Would Have a Voice: Unveiling the Barriers Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence Face in the United States Courts,” 39 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 109 (2025).

“Caged by a Marriage: How Child Marriages in the United States Are Enabled by Our Immigration System,” 71 Drake Law Review 1 (2024).

LEO BELETSKY
Professor of Law and Health Sciences; Faculty Director, The Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law

“Use and Perceptions of Involuntary Civil Commitment Among Post-Overdose Outreach Staff in Massachusetts, USA: A Mixed-Methods Study,” Addiction Journal (forthcoming) (co-author).

“What’s Old Is New Again in Addiction Treatment: The Expansion of Involuntary Commitment in the United States,” 27 Health and Human Rights 13 (June 2025) (co-author).

“Overdose and Overwork: First Responder Burnout and Mental Health Help-Seeking in Missouri's Overdose Crisis,” 271 Drug and Alcohol Dependence 1 (2025) (co-author).

“Missed Opportunities: Substance Use Hotline Operator Uncertainty of State Buprenorphine Prescribing via Telemedicine,” 18(1) Journal of Addiction Medicine 78 (2024).

“Cost-effectiveness of a Police Education Program on HIV and Overdose Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico,” 30 The Lancet Regional Health–Americas (2024) (co-author).

“An Evaluation of First Responders’ Intention to Refer to Post-Overdose Services Following SHIELD Training,” 21 Harm Reduction Journal 39 (2024) (co-author).

“Popular Media Misinformation on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, 2015–2021,” 125 International Journal of Drug Policy 104341 (2024) (co-author).

“Association of Medicaid Expansion with Health Insurance, Unmet Need for Medical Care and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Among People Who Inject Drugs in 13 US states,” 119 Addiction 582 (2024) (co-author).

“A Comparison of Non-Fatal Opioid Overdose, Acute Methamphetamine Toxicity, and Mixed Stimulant/Opioid Overdose Presentations,” 260 Drug and Alcohol Dependence 110274 (2024) (co-author).

“Costs and Essential Drug Access—The Case of Naloxone,” 332 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 109 (2024) (co-author).

ELIZABETH BLOOM
Teaching Professor, Legal Skills in Social Context; Program Administrator – FlexJD

Book Review: “Owning Our Values: Understanding Systemic Racism Through the Lens of Property Law (And Skills to Do Something About It),” Journal of Legal Education (2025).

ELETTRA BIETTI
Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science

“Rawlsian Antitrust,” (forthcoming).

“The Data-Attention Imperative,” 28 Florida Law Review (forthcoming).

“Regulating Competition in African Digital Markets: From Form to Substance,” German Law Journal (forthcoming) (co-author).

“AI, Competition & Markets," 26(1) Theoretical Inquiries in Law 5 (2025).

“Data is Infrastructure,” 26 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 55 (2025).

“Experimentalism in Digital Platform Markets: Antitrust and Utilities’ Convergence,” 2024(4) University of Illinois Law Review 1277 (2024).

MARTHA DAVIS
University Distinguished Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Global Law and Justice; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy; Faculty Director, NuLawLab

“A Glass Half Full: Can Local Human Rights Commissions Save International Law in the United States,” UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law (forthcoming).

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (2nd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming) (co-editor).

“‘Human Dignity’ in the Work of Local Human Rights Commissions,” 65 Washburn Law Journal (forthcoming) (co-author).

Human Rights Economies and Subnational Governance: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2025) (co-editor).

“Protecting Human Rights Through International and National Law.” In Social Injustice and Public Health, ed. B. Levy (4th edition, Oxford University Press, 2025) (co-author).

“Slavery, “Inalienable Rights,” and Abortion in State Constitutions,” 75 Syracuse Law Review 693 (2025).

RASHMI DYAL-CHAND
Professor of Law, Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Administration, Affiliate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University

“Big Banks: Go Small!,” 57 Connecticut Law Review 1181 (2025)

CLAUDIA HAUPT
Professor of Law and Political Science

Professional Speech (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Curbing Hate Speech Online: Lessons from the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG).” In Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech, eds. E. Heinze et al. (forthcoming).

“The Professional Regulation and Ethics of Direct-to-Prescription Marketing,” American Journal of Law and Medicine (forthcoming, 2026).

“The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights.” In Oxford Handbook on Digital Constitutionalism, eds. G. De Gregorio et al. (forthcoming).

“Democratic Self-Defense,” 93 Fordham Law Review 1377 (2025).

“FTC Regulation of AI-Generated Medical Disinformation,” Journal of the American Medical Association (co-author) (October 16, 2024).

ROSA HAYES
Assistant Professor of Law

“Comparative Judicial Enforcement,” 101 Washington Law Review (forthcoming) (co-author).

“Venue Diversion,” 2025 Wisconsin Law Review 147 (2025).

ALIZA HOCHMAN BLOOM
Assistant Professor of Law

“Suspicion by Association,” 68 University of Arizona Law Review 1 (forthcoming 2026).

“The Emerging Firearms Hypocrisy of Terry: The Fifth Circuit in United States v. Wilson,” 78 Stanford Law Review Online (2026).

“Policing Bias Without Intent,” 2025 University of Illinois Law Review 1307 (2025).

“Reviving Rehabilitation as a Decarceral Tool,” 101 Washington University Law Review 6 (2024).

“Whack-a-Mole Reasonable Suspicion,” 112 California Law Review 101 (2024).

ERIN ISLO
Assistant Professor of Law

“Not Like Other Contracts: The Supremacy and Exceptionalism of Ar bitration,” Idaho Law Review (forthcoming).

JONATHAN KAHN
Professor of Law and Biology

The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology (Columbia University Press, 2025).

“Covid and Racial Triage,” Medical Humanities (forthcoming).

KARL KLARE
George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law

“Two Cheers for Transformative Constitutionalism,” 35 Law and Critique 487 (2024) (co-author).

KATHERINE KRASCHEL
Assistant Professor of Law and Health Sciences

“The High Stakes of Gamete Regulation in a Post-Dobbs World.” In Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics, eds. C. G. Rene Almeling et al. (co-author) (NYU Press, 2025).

SARAH LAGESON
Associate Professor of Criminology/Criminal Justice and Law

“Criminal Data Function Creep,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (forthcoming).

“The Mark or Trace of a Criminal Record: A Survey Experiment of Race and Criminal Record Signaling,” 63(2) Criminology 382 (co-author).

“Digital Punishment, Lateral Surveillance and The Sex Offense Registry,” Punishment & Society (2025) (co-author).

“This is Everyone’s Issue’: Policy Entrepreneurs, Issue Framing, and Coalition Building in the Passage of Automatic Criminal Record Expungement,” 24 Criminology & Public Policy 655 (2025) (co-author).

“The Symbiotic Harms of a Criminal Record,” Criminal Justice and Behavior (2025) (co-author).

“The Intersection of Cannabis Legalization, Criminal Record Relief, and Emerging Adulthood,” 22 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 235 (2025) (co-author).

KRISTIN MADISON
Professor of Law and Health Sciences; Associate Dean for Academic Programs

“Discordant Discipline: Implications of State-Legislated Medicine for the Regulation of Physicians,” 129 Penn State Law Review 63 (2024).

DANIEL MEDWED
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

“Procedures Matter: Why Innocent Prisoners Don’t Get Out on Technicalities,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (forthcoming).

“Procedures Matter: Why Innocent Prisoners Don’t Get Out on Technicalities,” 22 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 369 (2025).

“Secrets of Chambers: The Constitutional Right to Present a Defense at Middle Age,” 66 Arizona Law Review 571 (2024).

ZINAIDA MILLER
Professor of Law and International Affairs; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Global Law and Justice; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy

“Haunting Justice: Racing and De-Racing through Transitional Justice.” In Race and Transitional Justice, eds. N. Jain and S. Nouwen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Temporary Measures,” London Review of Books (November 19, 2025).

“Transitional Justice Temporalities.” In The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice, eds. L Douglas et. al. (Oxford University Press, 2024).

“The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice,” International Journal of Transitional Justice (2024).

“Times of Violence, Times of Justice,” Included in “On international law and Gaza: critical reflections,” 12 London Review of International Law 217 (2024).

SHARMILA L. MURTHY
Professor of Law and Public Policy

“Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice,” 76 Stanford Law Review 597 (2024).

BETH NOVECK
Professor and Director, The Burnes Center for Social Change

WENDY E. PARMET
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Health Policy and Law; Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

“The Detrimental Shift: How the Judiciary is Eroding Our Health,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (forthcoming) (co-author).

“Beyond Health Reform: The ACA and the Social Drivers of Health,”Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Policy (forthcoming) (co-author).

“Reflections and Revisionism: Rethinking the US Response to COVID-19,” Book review of In COVID’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Francis Lee, Michigan Law Review (forthcoming).

“The Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 Term: Eroding Public Health, Health Equity, and Access to Justice,” 115 American Journal of Public Health 1773 (2025)(co-authored).

“The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Public Health Law,” 50 American Journal of Law & Medicine 279 (2025).

“Vaccines and Abortion: Congruence, Divergence, and the Elusive Meaning of Medical Freedom.” In Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, eds A. Sarat and S. Lee (NYU Press 2025).

DEBORAH RAMIREZ
Professor of Law Emerita; Chair, Criminal Justice Task Force; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR)

“Rethinking Public Safety,” Rutgers University Law Review (forthcoming) (co-author).

ALEXANDRA JANE ROBERTS
Professor of Law and Media; Faculty Director, Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC)

“Deceptively Misdescriptive Mark.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming).

“Multi-level Lies,” 58 UC Davis Law Review 2287 (2025).

“Oppressive & Empowering #Tagmarks.” In Feminist Cyberlaw, eds. M. Leta Jones and A. Levendowski (2024).

SONIA E. ROLLAND
Professor of Law

Book Review: Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law by Gregory Shaffer, 116 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming).

“E-commerce and Trade Law: A Fragmented Governance for the Digital Economy.” In Research Handbook on Electronic Commerce Law, ed. J. Rothchild (2nd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).

“Supporting Trade Negotiations with a Sustainable Development Impact Assessment,” Journal of International Economic Law (forthcoming).

“Harnessing International Trade Rules for Climate Action: Opportunities, Challenges and Avenues for Reform,” 44 Virginia Environmental Law Journal (forthcoming) (co-author).

“Development as a Litmus Test for Trade Law and Policy.” In Research Handbook on Trade Law and Development, ed. S. Rolland (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025).

Research Handbook on Trade Law and Development (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025).

Book Review: Energy and the Environment: Exploring the Nexus under International Economic Law, 43 Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs 219 (2025).

RACHEL ROSENBLOOM
Professor of Law

“Litigating Birthright Citizenship in the Shadow of World War II: The Continuing Relevance of a Forgotten Case,” Michigan Journal of Race and Law (forthcoming).

KATHERYN RUSSELL-BROWN
Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Trustee Professor of Crime, Law and Justice

“Race Centers as Critical Curriculum Spaces in U.S. Law Schools,” 76 Mercer Law Review 609 (2025) (co-author).

DAVID A. SIMON
Associate Professor of Law

“Data Distortions,” Texas Law Review (forthcoming).

“Off-Label Inducement 111 Iowa Law Review (forthcoming).

“Inadvertent Patent Signals,” 77 Alabama Law Review (forthcoming) (co-author).

“IP Pluralism’s Puzzle,” 103 Texas Law Review 1453 (2025) (co-author).

“Copyright’s Missing Personality,” 62 Houston Law Revoo

“Gatekeeping Drugs,” 57 Arizona State Law Journal 289 (2025).

KARA W. SWANSON
Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History

“The Border Politics of Patents and the Immigrant Inventor,” 103 Texas Law Review 1555 (2025).

“Minding the Gaps: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property.” In A Research Agenda for IP and Gender, eds. J.C. Lai and K. Bowrey (Edward Elgar, 2024).

“They Knew It All Along: Patents, Social Justice, and Fights for Civil Rights.” In Intellectual Property — Social Justice Handbook, eds. L. Mtima and S. Jamar (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

LUCY WILLIAMS
Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration

“Moving Human Rights Beyond the State: Holding International Institutions and Private Entities Accountable for Poverty Alleviation.” In Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (2nd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).

“Why Civil Procedure Matters: How Jurisdiction and Forum Selection Impact Liability of Multi-National Corporations to Marginalized People in the Global South.” In Comparative Civil Procedure: Power, Authority and Culture in Dispute Resolution, eds. C. van Rhee and M. Woo (Elgar Publishing, 2025).

PATRICIA WILLIAMS
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law (The New Press, 2024).

“The Paper Chase: A Reflection Upon Professor Asad Rahim’s The Legitimacy Trap,” 104 Boston University Law Review 1 (2024).

“Torn Apart,” The New York Review (December 5, 2024).

“Expanding the Vocabulary,” The New York Review (November 7, 2024).

“The DNA Dreams of the New Eugenics,” Los Angeles Review of Books (September 18, 2024).

MARGARET WOO
Professor of Law

The City of Jade Tress (The New Press, forthcoming).
Comparative Civil Procedure (Elgars Publishing, 2025).

Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab Co-Edits Groundbreaking Book on the Transformative Power of Legal Design
To address the pressing need for a more accessible, effective and just legal system, the leadership team of Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab has co-edited Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems. In this groundbreaking guide to legal design, NuLawLab Executive Director Dan Jackson ’97, Creative Director Jules Rochielle Sievert and Design Director Miso Kim introduce innovative frameworks that combine design with law and legal practice to reshape how justice is delivered.