How To Create Anti-Racist Energy Policies
Communities of color are disproportionately subsidizing an energy system that is killing them, writes Professor Shalanda Baker in an op-ed for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
Communities of color are disproportionately subsidizing an energy system that is killing them, writes Professor Shalanda Baker in an op-ed for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, is interviewed by the ABA Journal about her work on the front lines of civil rights and social justice.
“You don’t want there to ever be a time when there’s not a president,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells The Boston Globe.
Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 and Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 has been recognized among the “Power 50 for 2020: Extraordinary Year, Extraordinary People” list by the Boston Business Journal.
In a co-authored blog for the American Constitution Society (ACS), Professor Martha Davis, highlights Justice Ginsburg’s human rights-based approaches to equality as a “critical aspect of her legacy.”
In an op-ed co-authored for Teen Vogue, Genia Blaser ’11, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Defense Project, offers actionable advice on advocating for immigrant rights during Joe Biden’s administration.
Former SJC Associate Justice Fernande R.V. Duffly, currently a visiting professor of the practice at NUSL, and professors Daniel Medwed and Michael Meltsner, are among eight attorneys and legal scholars who have signed on to an amicus brief supporting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a new death penalty trial.
“[Nonprofit milk banks] are saddened by the idea that this product that they believe in very strongly and think would benefit a lot of babies would be less accessible if allocated on the basis of company profit rather than patient need,” Professor Kara Swanson, author of Banking on the Body,” tells The Washington Post. “In the history of U.S. medicine, there has never been enough banked breast milk for all the babies that might benefit.”
“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” Professor Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Washington Post. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is also false.”