“There are many valuable parts to play in animal protection, and the law is where I feel like I can personally have the biggest impact,” says Rebecca Cary ’09, a senior staff attorney in the Humane Society of the United States’ Animal Protection Litigation department.
Elizabeth Ennen ’08, director of Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE),is one of the leaders of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission’s COVID-19 Task Force Pro Bono Committee. The Committee has just launched a new online tool connecting attorneys and law students to pandemic-related pro bono opportunities that serve low-income residents of the Commonwealth.
In an op-ed co-authored for the New York Daily News, Professor Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Sellinger argue that that face masks are important for protecting people from COVID-19, not facial surveillance.
Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 weighs in on the automation of racial bias in this short film produced by The Economist.
“Pfizer has attempted to paint a positive picture of its MPP license despite its many restrictions,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT. “It doesn’t advertise that it has reserved 46% of the world’s population – people from high- and upper-middle-income countries – for its exclusive sales.”
“There is only so much we can learn from photographs,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells The New York Times. “As much as a photograph is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, a photograph cannot necessarily tell you intent or the legitimacy of a military objective.”
“The bottom line is that there are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and once again, they are at the back of the line,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Salon.
Check out the ABA Journal’s profile of Luz Arévalo ’93, senior attorney and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at Boston Legal Aid
“People in the U.S. have no greater right to health than people elsewhere in the world,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells the Los Angeles Times. “We’re all human. Health is a positive good for everyone. Yet we’re living under a monopoly-based system where giant pharmaceutical corporations make billions in profits at the expense of poor people in poor countries who are denied access to life-saving medicines.”