Professor Ari Ezra Waldman has been named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. A leading authority on law, technology and society, Waldman directs the School of Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC).
Abortion medications are available by mail and offer an FDA-approved option for those hoping to terminate an early pregnancy. If Roe is overturned, could the pills be criminalized? Professor Wendy Parmet weighs in.
A unique settlement that pays $73 million to the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims is influencing the way guns are marketed in the United States—and may inspire lawsuits in other industries, including social media, according to Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute.
“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” Professor Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Washington Post. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is also false.”
I would be surprised if the court ruled in a way that completely decapitated the governor's ability to respond to the pandemic, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Law360. "I don't think we have a dynamic here that we have in some states with that level of tension between the governor and the legislature."
“If this administration is serious about ending the overdose crisis, it will need to redeploy the tools of the DOJ in true service to public health. Change can’t come soon enough,” write Professor Leo Beletsky and his colleagues at Health in Justice Action Lab, in a co-authored op-ed for The Appeal.
The class of 2021 received their degrees during the School of Law’s commencement ceremony at Northeastern University’s Parsons Field in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Friday, May 14. Nabiha Syed, president of The Markup, delivered the Commencement Address. Watch the ceremony here.
What happens when the people we entrust with our lives and well-being compromise their credibility with a single photo? Professor Margaret Burnham, director of NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ), shares her take on the recent blackface controversies.
“[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.”