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
“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 (NYU Press, forthcoming).
“On the Why of Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba,” 17 Florida International University Law Review 485 (2023).
HAYAT BEARAT
Visiting Associate Professor; Interim Director, Domestic Violence Institute
“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, Health in Justice Action Lab
“When Crises Collide: Mapping the Intersections of Climate, Pollution, Crime, and Punishment,” Northeastern University Law Review (forthcoming).
“Emerging Disparities in the Placement of Law Enforcement-Based Treatment Referral and Recovery Programs,” 48 Criminal Justice Review 359 (2023).
“Advancing Harm Reduction Services in the United States: The Untapped Role of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” 21 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 61 (2022) (co-author).
“Evaluation of an Experimental Web-based Educational Module on Opioid-related Occupational Safety Among Police Officers: Protocol for a Randomized Pragmatic Trial to Minimize Barriers to Overdose Response,” 11 JMIR Res Protoc 33451 (2022) (co-author).
“Involuntary Commitment as a “Carceral-Health Service”: From Healthcare-to-Prison Pipeline to a Public Health Abolition Praxis,” 50 Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 22 (2022) (co-author).
“Impact of SHIELD Police Training on Knowledge of Syringe Possession Laws and Related Arrests in Tijuana, Mexico,” 112 American Journal of Public Health 860 (2022) (co-author).
“Build It Better for Public Health: Improved Data Infrastructure Is Vital to Bending the Curve of the Overdose Crisis,” 112 American Journal of Public Health 39 (2022) (co-author).
“Warrant Checking Practices by Post-Overdose Outreach Programs in Massachusetts: A Mixed-Methods Study,” 100 International Journal of Drug Policy 103483 (2022) (co-author).
ELETTRA BIETTI
Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science
“Rawls and Antitrust’s Justice Function,” (forthcoming).
“Experimentalism in Digital Platform Markets: Antitrust and Utilities’ Convergence,” 2024 (4) University of Illinois Law Review 1277 (2024).
“A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation,” 7 Georgetown Law Technology Review 1 (2023).
MARGARET BURNHAM
University Distinguished Professor of Law; Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR)
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton, 2022).
MARTHA DAVIS
University Distinguished Professor of Law; Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy; Faculty Director, NuLawLab
Human Rights Advocacy in the United States (West Academic, 2014; second edition, 2018; third edition, 2023).
“Institutionalizing Human Rights in the United States: Advocacy for a National Human Rights Institution,” Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming 2023).
“Institutionalizing Human Rights in the United States: Advocacy for a National Human Rights Institution,” Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming 2023).
“Limiting the Impact of Dobbs: The Potential for International Solidarity,” 11 feminists@law 1 (2022).
“The State of Abortion Rights in the U.S.,” 159 International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 324 (2022).
“(G)local Intersectionality,” 19 Washington and Lee Law Review 1021 (2022).
“Hidden Burdens: Household Water, “Hard to Reach” Renters and Systemic Racism,” 52 Seton Hall Law Review 1461 (2022).
“Limiting the Impact of Dobbs: The Potential for International Solidarity,” 11 feminists@law 1 (2022).
RASHMI DYAL-CHAND
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
“Sharing the Climate,” 122 Columbia Law Review 581 (2022).
CLAUDIA HAUPT
Professor of Law and Political Science
“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 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 (forthcoming).
“Pseudo-Professional Advice,” 103 Boston University Law Review 775 (2023).
“AI Chatbots, Health Privacy, and Challenges to HIPAA Compliance,” Journal of the American Medical Association (co-author) (July 6, 2023).
“Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards,” 25 American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 194 (2023) (co-authored with Professor Wendy Parmet).
“Lethal Lies: Government Speech, Distorted Science, and the First Amendment,” 2022 University of Illinois Law Review 1809 (2022) (co-authored with Professor Wendy E. Parmet).
ALIZA HOCHMAN BLOOM
Assistant Professor of Law
“Policing Bias Without Intent,” University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
“Reviving Rehabilitation as a Decarceral Tool,” 101 Washington University Law Review 6 (2024).
“Whack-a-Mole Reasonable Suspicion,” 112 California Law Review (forthcoming 2024).
“Objective Enough: Race is Relevant to the Reasonable Person in Criminal Procedure,” 19 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 1 (2023).
ERIN ISLO
Assistant Professor of Law
“Not Like Other Contracts: The Supremacy and Exceptionalism of Arbitration,” Idaho Law Review (forthcoming).
MELVIN J. KELLEY
Associate Professor of Law and Business
“Trading Places or Changing Spaces? At the Crossroads of Defining and Redressing Segregation,” 54 Connecticut Law Review 845 (forthcoming).
KRISTIN MADISON
Professor of Law and Health Sciences
“Regional Economic Conditions and Preventable Hospitalization Among Older Patients with Diabetes,” 60 Medical Care 212 (2022) (co-author).
DANIEL MEDWED
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice
Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison (Hachette/Basic Books, 2022).
“Secrets of Chambers: The Constitutional Right to Present a Defense at Middle Age,” Arizona Law Review (forthcoming).
“Wrongful Conviction Writ Large: A Review of Valena Beety’s Manifesting Justice,” The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (forthcoming).
“Not Just Mercy: The Untapped Potential of Clemency to Right Wrongful Convictions,” Law Journal for Social Justice (forthcoming).
“Post-Conviction Review on Trial: When Do Appellate Courts Correct for Prosecutorial Misconduct?,” Crime & Delinquency (2022) (co-author).
ZINAIDA MILLER
Professor of Law and International Affairs; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy; 2023-2024 Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Equity and Race
“Times of Violence, Times of Justice,” in On International Law and Gaza: Critical Reflections, 00 London Review of International Law 34 (2024).
“Transitional Justice Temporalities.” In The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice, eds. L.Douglas et al. (Oxford University Press, 2023).
“Times of Violence, Times of Justice,” in “On International Law and Gaza: Critical Reflections,” London Review of International Law (July 29, 2024).
“The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice,” International Journal of Transitional Justice (2024).
SHARMILA L. MURTHY
Professor of Law and Public Policy
“Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice,” 76 Stanford Law Review 597 (2024).
ALEXANDRA MEISE
Associate Teaching Professor
“U.S. Climate Commitments in the Wake of West Virginia v. EPA,” 26 ASIL Insights (August 16, 2022).
BETH NOVECK
Professor and Director, The Burnes Center for Social Change
“Responding to Mass, Computer-Generated, and Malattributed Comments,” 74 Administrative Law Review 95 (2022) (co-author).
WENDY E. PARMET
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director, Center for Health Policy and Law; Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
“Post-Truth Won’t Set Us Free: Health Law, Patient Autonomy, and the Rise of the Infodemic,” in COVID-19 and the Law Disruption, Impact and Legacy,” ed. I.G. Cohen et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2023) (co-authored with Professor Jeremy Paul).
“Accommodating Religious Objections to Vaccination Mandates—Implications of Groff v DeJoy for Health Care Employers,” JAMA Health Forum (September 7, 2023) (co-author).
“Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications,” 113 American Journal of Public Health 280 (2023) (co-author).
“Holding Clinicians in Public Office Accountable to Professional Standards,” 25 American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 194 (2023) (co-authored with Professor Claudia Haupt).
“U.S. Public Health Law — Foundations and Emerging Shifts,” 386 The New England Journal of Medicine 805 (2022) (co-author).
“The Antiscience Supreme Court is Hurting the Health of Americans,” Scientific American (May 17, 2022).
“Lethal Lies: Government Speech, Distorted Science, and the First Amendment,” 2022 University of Illinois Law Review 1809 (2022) (co-authored with Professor Claudia Haupt).
“The Ethics and Justice of Recognizing Migrants’ Right to Health,” in Migration and Health, eds. S. Galea, C.K. Ettman and M.H. Zaman (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
“Communicable Disease Law in the United States,” in Oxford Comparative Handbook of Health Law, eds. D. Orentlicher and T. Harvey (Oxford, 2022).
“US Law Relating to Noncommunicable Diseases,” in Oxford Comparative Handbook of Health Law, eds. D. Orentlicher and T. Harvey (Oxford, 2022).
“Social Determinants in the United States,” in Oxford Comparative Handbook of Health Law, eds. D. Orentlicher and T. Harvey (Oxford, 2022).
JEREMY PAUL
Professor of Law
“Post-Truth Won’t Set Us Free: Health Law, Patient Autonomy, and the Rise of the Infodemic.” In COVID-19 and the Law Disruption, Impact and Legacy,” ed. I.G. Cohen et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2023) (co-author).
Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (Carolina Academic Press, 1999, second edition, 2023) (co-author).
DEBORAH RAMIREZ
Professor of Law; 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).
“Community Justice Reimagined,” 67 Boston Bar Journal 6 (2023) (co-author).
ALEXANDRA JANE ROBERTS
Professor of Law and Media
“Oppressive & Empowering #Tagmarks.” In Feminist Cyberlaw (2024).
“Deceptively Misdescriptive Mark.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming 2024).
“Multi-level Lies,” UC Davis Law Review (forthcoming).
“Of Marks & Minors,” Houston Law Review (forthcoming).
“A Poetics of Trademark Law,” 38 Berkeley Technology Law Review 51 (2023).
”Getting a Handle on Handles,” 66 Communications of the ACM 28 (January 2023).
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).
RACHEL ROSENBLOOM
Professor of Law
“Commentary on United States v. Wong Kim Ark,” in Feminist Judgments: Immigration Law Decisions Rewritten, ed. K. Kim et al. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
DAVID A. SIMON
Associate Professor of Law
“Gatekeeping Drugs,” Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming).
“The Supreme Court’s Loper BrightRuling: Implications for Clinical Testing, Innovation, and Public Health,” Journal of the American Medical Association (August 26, 2024).
“On Copyright Utilitarianism,” 99 Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming).
“Off-Label Preemption,” Wisconsin Law Review (forthcoming).
“Using Digital Technologies To Diagnose in the Home: Recommendations From a Delphi Panel,” NPJ Digital Medicine 18 (co-author) (2024).
“Informational Capacity, Regulation, and Certification Marks.” In Research Handbook on the Law and Economics of Trademark Law, Ed. G. Lunney (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).
“Copyright, Moral Rights, and the Social Self,” 34 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 1 (2023).
“Off-Label Speech,” 72 Emory Law Journal 549 (2023).
KARA W. SWANSON
Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History; Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary Education
“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, forthcoming).
“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).
“Beyond the Progress of the Useful Arts: The Inventor as Useful Citizen,” 60 Houston Law Review 363 (2022).
“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: A Lesson in the Law of Trespass,” 45 Connecticut Law Review 1005 (2022).
“Centering Black Women Inventors: Passing and the Patent Archive,” 25 Stanford Technology Law Review 305 (2022).
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),
MARGARET WOO
Professor of Law
“Access to Civil Justice,” 70 The American Journal of Comparative Law i89 (2022) (co-author).
LUA KAMÁL YUILLE
Professor of Law and Business
“Opinion: Smith v. Van Gorkom,” in Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten, ed. A. Choike et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
“Regionalism, Identity, & the Europe Union: Embracing Democracy or Co-Opting Dissident Voices,” in Tipping Points in International Law, eds. J. D’Aspremont and J. Haskell (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
“The White Androcentric Disposition of Capitalist Property,” 2 Journal of Law and Political Economy 252 (2022) (co-author).
“Mapping Critical Geographies in Virtual Space,” 99 Denver Law Review 653 (2022) (co-author).