“This decision ties the CDC’s hands at a time when we still do not know what the next few months will bring in terms of the pandemic and new strains,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Financial Times. “It is really important the administration pushes back.”
Betty Francisco ’98, Mass. AG. Maura Healey ’98 and U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins ’97 have been named to Boston Magazine’s 2022 Most Influential People in Boston list.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders have selected Marielena Hincapié ’96, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, to serve as co-chair of their joint task force. Hincapié will advise the Biden campaign on immigration policy.
In their latest co-authored op-ed, Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger argue that facial recognition is perfectly tailored to serve the worst impulses of humanity during a time of deep vulnerability: “The thing is, we already know enough to conclude that face recognition technology shouldn’t be used to fight COVID-19.”
The courts and law enforcement are just a piece of this broader societal puzzle, and [in] that puzzle, the general theme is triage, Professor Daniel Medwed tells Insider.
“If one state opens up— whatever that means—in a way that the other states are not ready to do, it could cause a catastrophe,” says Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “The virus doesn’t pay a toll on the George Washington Bridge.”
“The courts are trying to use video and teleconferencing to keep the wheels of justice turning,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. “What sort of remains to be seen is not which cases are emergencies, but how is technology up to this crisis.”
Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 joined WBUR’s All Things Considered to answer questions about labor and consumer rights in the age of the coronavirus.
Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, provides expert commentary on the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.
“People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Atlantic. “We keep them out, and we’ll be okay. When you have a body politic that buys into these ideas of isolationism and ethnonationalism, you’re especially vulnerable when a pandemic hits.”