A ruling in favor of the independent state legislature doctrine would have a lasting impact, ensuring one-party rule and rendering elections “virtually meaningless,” according to Professors Michael Meltsner, Jeremy Paul and Dan Urman.
The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
“It would be an extraordinary failure of public policy for Congress not to reauthorize funding to extend government supported access to vaccines, boosters, tests, and therapeutics,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law.
Professors Martha Davis and Dan Urman share their thoughts on the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
“For a long time, the narrative around climate change has been that this happens somewhere else,” Professor Alexandra Meise, tells News@Northeastern. “In the past couple of years, there’s starting to be a real realization that climate change has come home.”
“DIH statutes force people into the unimaginable situation of deciding whether to call for help and risk prosecution for homicide or allow their friend or loved one to die of an overdose," writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored op-ed for USA Today.
Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, doesn’t buy the idea that Ghislaine Maxwell served in court as a proxy for prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein. “He would not be able to do what he did without her," she tells News@Northeastern.
Simone Yhap ’22, the 55th National Chair of the National Black Law Students Association, is profiled by News@Northeastern. “Whenever I’m leading something or engaged in something, I ask, ‘How is this positively impacting the communities, not only that I’m a part of, but more importantly, that I’m serving?’,” says Yhap who has secured a post-graduation job as an intellectual property litigation associate at Mintz Levin.
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.
Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Geneva Health Filesthat a negative precedent is being set with respect to transparency for public resources spent in procuring COVID-19 therapeutics: “Not only has the world allowed biopharmaceutical companies to maintain monopoly control over the supply, price, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, it has also consistently allowed them to achieve their profiteering under a veil of secrecy.”