In an interview with City & State New York, Carmelyn Malalis ’01 reflects on her tenure as the head of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Malalis stepped down from her role with the commission on October 1, after almost seven years of service.
“We’re all talking about different aspects of making sure that there is equity in the water,” says James Morton ’81, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston.
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“At this point, it’s a reasonable doubt defense where Kevin Reddington is going to argue that because of the medication, because of her mental health, she couldn’t have premeditated this; it wasn’t a deliberate decision,” says Professor Daniel Medwed in Bestlife.
“The status quo of rich countries imposing ever increasing monopoly protections to benefit the market control and profiteering of their transnational pharmaceutical giants must end,” writes Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP, in an opinion piece for The Jakarta Post.
The Death Penalty Information Center cites Professor Daniel Medwed’s book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison.
“There needs to be reform in our immigration laws to have the minimum age (of spousal visas) be 18 unless there’s an exception for extreme humanitarian reasons,” Professor Hayat Bearat, interim director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells Northeastern Global News.
As part of their spring clinic with the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Heather Atherton ’25, Morgan Heithcock ’25, Brianne Ortiz ’25 and Isabella Ulm ’24 traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, in April to investigate the 1953 killing of Sydney Batiste, who was murdered when he was 17 years old by Sergeant Edward Touzet. The students were accompanied by CRRJ’S Elizabeth Zitrin Fellow and clinical instructor, Attorney Olivia Strange.
In her latest blog, Professor Beth Simone Noveck, director of The Burnes Center for Social Change, argues the White House’s latest guidance on federal agencies’ AI usage doesn’t realize the full potential of AI in government.