Athletes Likely Off the Hook In FTX Mess, But No Guarantee
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and social media, weighs in on the class action lawsuit against FTX founder and his celebrity backers.
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and social media, weighs in on the class action lawsuit against FTX founder and his celebrity backers.
Listen: Professor Beth Noveck, author of Solving Public Problems and director of the Governance Lab, joined the EFF Podcast to talk about how civic technology can enhance people’s relationship with the government and help improve their communities.
Listen back: Professor Beth Noveck, director of the Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation, discusses her new book, Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.
“In a well-functioning polity, we would not need litigation to ensure that children can remain healthy at school,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in an op-ed for The Atlantic.
Listen back: On BYUradio’s Top of Mind, Professor Ari Waldman, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), explains why Amazon’s biometric systems are drawing concern from US lawmakers and privacy advocates.
On July 14, 2021, Professors Brook Baker and Martha Davis joined a panel of experts to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality and vaccinations. The webinar was sponsored by Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and University of Minnesota Law School Human Rights Center.
Recommended listening: On Kara Swisher’s New York Times “Sway” podcast, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 weighs in on social media, the Sacklers and Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
Professor Wendy Parmet tells Forbes the law around vaccine mandates for Congress is “different” than for other employers, but that the legal case for vaccine mandates in general is “pretty strong” if some exemptions are provided.
“This kind of misinformation is definitely harmful,” Professor @LeoBeletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The New York Times. “If people think that they might die of an overdose from providing emergency assistance — that might cost lives.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/san-diego-police-overdose-fentanyl.html
Listen back: NuLawLab’s Dan Jackson ’97 and Jules Rochielle Sievert joined the Reimagining Justice podcast to share their insights on the importance of creativity, community and fun in developing legal inventors of the future!