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

“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

“I Thought I Would Have a Voice: Unveiling the Barriers Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence Face in the United States Courts,” The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society (forthcoming 2024).

“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

“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).

ELETTRA BIETTI
Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science

“Data is Infrastructure,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law (forthcoming).

“The Data-Attention Imperative,” (forthcoming).

“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).

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).

Annotated Bibliography: “Persons Born” and the Jurisprudence of Life,” 104 Boston University Law Review Online 161 (2024).

“‘Down Where the Grass Grows’: Municipal Abortion Policies After Dobbs,” 95 University of Colorado Law Review 479 (2024).

“In Context: Foreign and International Law in Abortion Litigation,” 64 Santa Clara Law Review 101 (2024).

“Institutionalizing Human Rights in the United States: Advocacy for a National Human Rights Institution,” 23 Journal of Human Rights 134 (2024).

“Municipal Capacity for Water Justice: A Cross-Case Comparison of Affordability and Equity Policies in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,” 26 Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 1 (2024) (co-author).

“Institutionalizing Human Rights in the United States: Advocacy for a National Human Rights Institution,” 23 Journal of Human Rights 134 (2024).

“Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Annotated Bibliography,” 15 Northeastern University Law Review (forthcoming).

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 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).

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

ALIZA HOCHMAN BLOOM
Assistant Professor of Law

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

“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 101 (2024).

ERIN ISLO
Assistant Professor of Law

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

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

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

KATHERINE KRASCHEL
Assistant Professor of Law and Health Sciences

“The High Stakes of Gamete Regulation in a Post-Dobbs World,” Sperm|Health|Politics (forthcoming).

DANIEL MEDWED
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

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

“Not Just Mercy: The Untapped Potential of Clemency to Right Wrongful Convictions,” Law Journal for Social Justice (forthcoming).

“Wrongful Conviction Writ Large: A Review of Valena Beety’s Manifesting Justice,” The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (forthcoming).

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

“Times of Violence, Times of Justice.” In On International Law and Gaza: Critical Reflections, 00 London Review of International Law 34 (2024).

“The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice,” 18 International Journal of Transitional Justice 150 (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 Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Public Health Law,” 50 American Journal of Law & Medicine 279 (2025).

“From Deference to Indifference: Judicial Review of the Scope of Public Health Authority During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” 17 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 1 (2024).

“Understanding the Post-Dobbs Landscape for Abortion Care in the United States,” 114 American Journal of Public Health 994 2024 (co-author).

“Perspective — Déjà Vu All Over Again — Refusing to Learn the Lessons of Covid-19,” 391 The New England Journal of Medicine 481 (2024) (co-author).

“Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19: Implications For Public Health Policy Making,” 43 Health Affairs 749 (2024) (co-author).

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)

“Oppressive & Empowering #Tagmarks.” In Feminist Cyberlaw, eds. M. Leta Jones and A. Levendowski (2024).
“Deceptively Misdescriptive Mark.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming).
“Multi-level Lies,” UC Davis Law Review (forthcoming).
“Of Marks & Minors,” 62 Houston Law Review 307 (forthcoming).

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 Bright Ruling: 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).

“New Drug-Development Paradigms? Opportunities and Uncertainties with New Government Drug Repurposing Programs,” Opportunities and Uncertainties with New Government Drug Repurposing Programs (2024) (co-author).

“Assessing Public and Private Rights.” In The Law and Ethics of Data Sharing in Health Sciences, eds. M. Corrales Compagnucci et al. (Springer, 2024) (co-author).

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

“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).

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

Comparative Civil Procedure (Elgars Publishing, forthcoming).
“Why Comparative Civil Procedure?,” Comparative Procedural Law and Justice Part 1, Chapter 2 (co-author) (2024).

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.