“Both Merck and Pfizer have reserved for themselves all the high-income countries and virtually all of the upper-middle-income countries and even some lower-middle-income countries,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. Professor Baker recently submitted a legal brief in support of the Dominican Republic’s petition to allow the distribution of the generic version of Paxlovid.
Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe that the removal of tents and the recent shuttering of an engagement center were “wrong-headed initiatives that leaned too heavily on law enforcement to simply sweep the problems of Mass. and Cass under the proverbial rug.”
Rachael Rollins ’97, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, was the convocation speaker at Boston University School of Law’s graduation ceremony last weekend. “Don’t be afraid to fail,” she told the class of 2022. “Get in the game—even when people say you can’t and shouldn’t.”
On GBH’s Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a new bill recently passed by the Massachusetts Legislature that would allow unauthorized immigrants to secure driver’s licenses and some of the controversy surrounding it.
“There’s a huge movement all across the country to look at historical wrongs, including forced sterilization, and to consider what needs to be done now in order to redress them,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, tells The New York Times Magazine. “I think this is really the question of the 21st century.”
“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”
“Even if chiefs see an officer using excessive force or know that an officer has repeated complaints filed against them, it’s difficult for the chief to discipline them because the union-controlled arbitration process overturns the verdict,” Professor Deborah Ramirez, an advocate for a professional liability insurance system for police offers, tells USA TODAY.
“I don’t think whatever gains women have made in the workplace and in political representation are guaranteed,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New Yorker. ”If the Court moved us back to the nineteen-fifties in terms of access to contraception and abortion, well then, I think we would have some of the same social and economic consequences we had then.”
Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells NBC News Now “there’s quite a reckoning still to come,” for E-cigarette maker Juul Labs. The company has agreed to pay $438.5 million in a settlement with 33 states and one territory over marketing its product to teens.