By agreeing to hear an abortion case out of Mississippi that the state’s lower courts ruled was plainly unconstitutional under the landmark Roe v. Wade, the justices indicated that the nation’s highest court may seek to change the abortion standard, say Professors Aziza Ahmed and Dan Urman.
As autonomous systems become more ubiquitous in daily life, instances of these systems behaving in unintended ways are also becoming more frequent—or are inherently flawed when behaving as expected. Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Rashida Richardson explore the failure points in these complex systems.
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.
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.
“We are at the first stage of a tsunami of litigation,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law as Georgia's abortion law adds to an ongoing fight over the boundaries between states and the federal government.
Professor Beth Noveck, director of The Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation at Northeastern University and its partner project, The GovLab, has been named to Apolitical’s list of the 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.
“Fatal overdoses result in part because people use in isolation and because witnesses are reluctant to call 911,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Appeal. “This is why public health efforts like naloxone distribution and Good Samaritan laws try to remove barriers to life-saving interventions.”
Karen Kithan Yau ’96, of counsel at Kakalec Law, has been selected to receive a Pro Bono Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) at the organization’s annual ceremony in December. Yau is co-chair of the Pro Bono and Community Service (PBCS) Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).
Listen back: On the Workers Comp Matters podcast, Professor Emily Spieler dismisses hype that Covid-19 will crush workers’ comp systems.
To mark #HumanRightsDay, Northeastern Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has released a new publication, “Disconnected: How Household Water Shutoffs in the United States During the COVID Pandemic Violate the Human Right to Water.”