Civics 101 Trivia Featuring Professor Meise
As a contestant on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics101 quiz, Professor Xander Meise was tested on her knowledge of American symbols. Listen back to hear how well she did!
As a contestant on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics101 quiz, Professor Xander Meise was tested on her knowledge of American symbols. Listen back to hear how well she did!
“It’s about making sure that there’s actually a pathway for people who have been on the illicit market to actually get to be part of the real market,” Shanel Lindsay ’07, founder and president of Ardent Cannabis, tells NBC News.
Listen back: NPR Morning Edition profiles Professor Shalanda Baker ‘05, current deputy director for energy justice in the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy (DOE), who has been nominated for promotion to director of the DOE’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity.
Listen Now! FRONTLINE PBS has launched the trailer for Un(re)solved — a new, multipart narrative podcast series, produced in collaboration with Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights Project (CRRJ), telling the stories of lives cut short and a federal effort to re-examine cold case murders dating back to the civil rights era.
Listen back: On GBH’s Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed breaks down the arguments for and against amending Massachusetts’ wiretapping law.
The upcoming Suffolk County DA election is going to be a “fascinating referendum on whether the progressive prosecutorial movement is here to stay in Boston, or whether it’s just a short term blip on our political radar,” says Professor Daniel Medwed.
On the Pike School’s Onward! podcast, Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute (and Pike class of 1995!), talks about the work she and her law students are doing to assist and empower victims of domestic violence.
“For many elected officials, and even many judges, partisanship, rather than salus populi, seems to be the supreme law,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
“People do need to hear some good news, but it can be dangerous to send the message that things are OK. We don’t want everybody to think ‘we got this,’ because we don’t,” Parmet said. “If this is a leap too far too fast, we won’t know that for a while.”
“The defense counsel may not be aware of the racial overtones in his arguments, but his words paint Williams as someone whose anger overpowered and colored his perception of the event,” Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force, tells The Washington Post.