Policing the Police with Professor Deborah Ramirez
Professor Deborah Ramirez joins the PowerPLAY podcast to make the case for mandatory professional liability insurance for police officers.
Professor Deborah Ramirez joins the PowerPLAY podcast to make the case for mandatory professional liability insurance for police officers.
“The harm of not being able to pass immigration reform is we’re losing out on really good people," Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, tells the Cape Cod Times.
Northeastern News spotlights Terrence Johnson, a 2020 graduate of Northeastern’s Master of Science in Media Advocacy, who has gone on to co-host a new YouTube show produced by WGBH that features analysis and insights about how social media users are engaging with the social, economic and cultural issues of the day.
Northeastern Law’s Professor Woodrow Hartzog was among the tech and policy experts who gave testimony before the Boston City Council last week in support of a proposed ban on facial recognition surveillance.
Accepting political contributions from for-profit prisons, either directly or indirectly from a PAC, strikes me as inconsistent with the objectives of many advocates for prison reform and decarceration,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells the New Boston Post.
We must focus on what can be done to secure the up-front conditions that will guarantee COVID-19 vaccines and therapies truly benefit everyone, no matter where they live,"" writes Professor Brook Baker in his latest blog for Health GAP. ""Global solidarity is not naive – it is a necessity."" "
“Every city has its own slate of issues,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Intercept. “But there is this common theme and common ground here that does relate to the police in the United States having too much power, being too heavily weaponized, and being too protected by their unions."
“I think what the young people who are in the streets today are saying is, it’s not the world we want to live in. We want to create our own world. We want to create a world that is responsive to our understandings of what it means to be human,” says Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ). “And we want a justice system.”
Community-wide responses will help to ensure "affordable water for all," says Martha Davis, newly named University Distinguished Professor.
Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, has been named to the Most Influential 100 Latinas of 2021 list by