“It sounds like the defense lawyers are doing the best they can with less than ideal facts,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The LA Times. “Being an effective trial lawyer is managing the rules of evidence but also managing the narrative, so that you create sympathy and support for your side in a way that’s almost complementary to the evidence.”
Professor Claudia Haupt comments on the Tampa conversion therapy ban for The Washingon Post: “If you’re acting in your professional capacity, there are consequences to giving bad advice, so speech can be sanctioned.”
Shanel Lindsay ’07, founder and president of the Boston cannabis company Ardent and a member of the Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board, is profiled in The Boston Globe!
In January, Professor Susan Montgomery spoke before the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates in favor of a resolution encouraging courts to take a consistent approach to the “fair use” doctrine, a defense to copyright infringement that permits use of copyrighted works for free without obtaining a license or permission in appropriate circumstances. Montgomery, a member of the ABA’s section of Intellectual Property Law, contended that the resolution addresses an issue that is faced often by both copyright owners and users.
The 20th-floor work space of Massachusetts AG Maura Healey ’98 is the focus of this Boston Globe feature. And, of course, the AG has her NUSL diploma proudly displayed in her office!
Margo Lindauer ’07, director of the School of Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells Refinery29 that custody proceedings can increase the lethality of domestic violence situations: “Children are often the last link between abusers and their victims and that abusers often exploit family courts in an effort to retain power.”
“People are dropping dead by the thousands [in the opioid epidemic], and we are teetering around the edges,”Professor Leo Beletsky tells Vox Media.
Listen now! Qainat Khan ’20 has produced a four-part series on affordable housing for WBUR Radio Boston. The final episode airs tomorrow and will feature Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand.
Professor Woodrow Hartzog is quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
Professor Woodrow Hartzog will testify before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation this Wednesday, February 27, as part of a hearing titled, “Policy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States.” The hearing will examine what Congress should do to address risks to consumers and implement data privacy protections for all Americans.