Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH News to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to deny Michelle Carter’s appeal in the texting suicide case.

“There is increasing popular support for recognition of women’s rights in the Constitution, and I think that’s only going to continue,” Professor Martha Davis tells The Cut. “This is a campaign that’s gone on for 96 years, and it has not gone away. There’s a lot of energy, and it’s just going to keep going.”

“I don’t see a future where we harness the benefits of face recognition technology without the crippling abuse of the surveillance that comes with it,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The New York Times. “The only way to stop it is to ban it.”

Professor Daniel Medwed comments for Reuters on the Weinstein defense strategy: “If the defense lawyers are perceived as being too aggressive and challenging, it’s going to make the witnesses more sympathetic.”

The social understanding of the kind of domestic abuse that can occur in straight relationships has many benefits. Conversely, the lack of understanding of domestic abuse in queer relationships can also translate into a lack of access,”” writes Savannah Weinstock, a student in Northeastern Law’s MS in Media Advocacy program, in a piece for US News.”

Rather than contain an epidemic, harsh, coercive policies often scapegoat already-marginalized populations and intensify panic rather than quell it, write Professor Wendy Parmet and Visiting Scholar Michael Sinha in a co-authored op-ed for The Washington Post.

Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, is profiled as the co-founder of one of the most important networking organizations in Massachusetts’ fast-growing Latino community. “We could see there was a lot of talent,” she tells The Boston Globe. “But oftentimes, it was not very visible to those who could open a door for them.”

“Quarantines and travel bans have a really, really ugly history, Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian. “” Everyone always wants to do it when people are scared. But the downsides are high and the risks are high.””

As part of its Black History Month celebrations, the National Disability Rights Network has produced a video tribute in in memory of Professor Hope Lewis: “Although Professor Lewis passed away in 2016, her continual efforts to protect the human and economic rights of impoverished/marginalized people still live on around the world through her legal research, teachings and prolific advocacy.”

In a recent SCOTUSblog post, Professor Aziza Ahmed examines June Medical Services v. Gee – which raises questions similar to those in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) regarding targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP) laws and admitting privileges.