Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine

“In the absence of principled guidelines, the [major questions] doctrine serves as a major transfer of federal policymaking power from the elected branches to an unelected and unaccountable judiciary,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in a co-authored piece for the Petrie Flom Center’s Bill of Health Blog. “Worse, it offers those who are regulated yet another way to challenge any and all federal health regulations, allowing litigation to become our primary means of making public health policy.”

The Unalienable Rights Commission: Dead or Dormant?

“While the Commission on Unalienable Rights is officially dead, human rights attorneys and advocates must keep an eye on developments at Notre Dame,” writes Sandy Recinos ’23 who completed her fall co-op with Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. “No one should be lulled into thinking that the ill-conceived parts of the Unalienable Rights report will simply go away quietly.”

Progressive Group Slams House for Lack of Professionalism, Transparency

“This is not something progressive Democrats together with progressive allies are going to significantly achieve,” Professor Emeritus Peter Enrich, chair of the Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts, tells CommonWealth. “If we’re going to make a difference here, it’s going to require a far broader coalition that reaches out across the political spectrum, to groups engaged with various issues.”

Debating International Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

In her contribution to Divided We Fall's Civility Without Borders series, Professor Martha Davis argues that ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights (ICESCR) would benefit the United States both domestically and internationally.