Professor Brook Baker responds to Costa Rica’s request for an emergency COVID-19 Technology Intellectual Property Pool (TIPP) for all countries: “Simply put, no exclusive rights should stand in the way of governments’ and the global community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“It is far beyond time to turn the page—to move on from a punishment that, while deeply rooted in our history, has never proven worthy of retention,” write Professors Michael Meltsner and Daniel Medwed in a co-authored piece for Slate.
“Time and connection have brought us to a moment where we have a real opportunity to pass the Equality Act to update our civil rights laws for the modern era,” writes Mary Bonauto ’87, civil rights project director at GLAD, in an op-ed for USA Today.
On August 4, the army unveiled a historic marker honoring the life of Private Felix Hall, who was found hanging from a tree on a segregated Army base in Georgia in 1941. Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) was first to unearth the FBI file on Hall, the only known victim of a lynching on a US military installation.
“The plan to electrify Boston’s school buses by 2030 “is absolutely the right move,” says Staci Rubin ’10, vice president of environmental justice at the Conservation Law Foundation. “Electric school buses dramatically improve air quality and our children deserve to be in a tailpipe emissions-free vehicle.”
“We’re already seeing obviously tremendous strain on the healthcare system right now,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells News@Northeastern . “We seem to be at the cusp of what might be the tripledemic.”
“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
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.
"Preemptive voluntary tech transfer by companies and capacity investments by governments could and should begin now, even as the waiver text is being negotiated," writes Professor Brook Baker '76 in his latest blog for Health GAP.
In an opinion piece for CommonWealth, Professor Carol Steinberg ’80 makes the case for two bills pending in the Mass. House and Senate that would enforce accessibility in workplaces when the buildings in which they are located are new or substantially renovated.