Can the Catholic Church Claim Immunity From Abuse Lawsuits Because it is a Charity?
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, provides a summary of the key Supreme Judicial Court decisions that been issued over the summer.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, provides a summary of the key Supreme Judicial Court decisions that been issued over the summer.
“[Judge Aileen Cannon] is leaning over backwards to treat Trump the way nobody else has been treated,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells Al Jazeera. “In US law and practice, we don’t interfere lightly with a criminal investigation. A criminal investigation by its very nature has to be private.”
Professor Daniel Medwed’s forthcoming book, BARRED: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison , has been included in Bloomberg’s list of The 10 Best Books to Read This Fall!🍂 #NUSLPride
”The harm of not being able to pass immigration reform is we’re losing out on really good people,” Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, tells the Cape Cod Times.
”In today’s increasingly polarized political environment, legal doctrines that once supported the states’ ability to protect the health of their residents are diminishing the capacity of both our national and local governments to do so,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for Scientific American. “Unless the courts stop enabling this political weaponization of federalism, our federalism will remain uncooperative. And deadly.”
Listen back: On GBH’s Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses the legal implications of a new Bristol County sheriff, auditor and tax policy.
Professor Brook Baker talks to Fast Company magazine about philanthropy’s function in public health: “A fundamental question is, Well, because you have the money, should you be able to control the architecture of global health?”
It is the height of naïveté to believe that words in a political speech can be understood in isolation from their context, writes Professor Michael Meltsner in a letter to the New York Times.