Professor Jeremy Paul says he sees Louisiana’s new legislation requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in Louisiana making its way to the Supreme Court in due time.
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Allyson Crays ’24 has taken third place in the If/When/How 2022 Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights and Justice.
“College students are especially susceptible to getting hooked by betting platforms because campus culture is predominantly engaged with sports,” Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’ Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells The Huntington News.
“Once again we find ourselves coming together to say the name of another victim of police violence,” said Deborah Jackson, managing director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) at Northeastern Law. “Another man, 29 years old, just trying to make his way home when he was stopped and brutally beaten by officers who took an oath to serve and protect.”
“In the case of tobacco warning labels, advocates had to demonstrate in lawsuits challenging such labels that tobacco use did cause cancer,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Tech Policy Press. “And it’s likely that in addition to First Amendment challenges, the social media warning labels also would likely face similar tests in establishing that overuse of social media does result in mental health harms.”
"As abortion issues play out in state courts, state court judges will need to get comparative law right and identify the flaws in findings like those in the Mississippi law," writes Professor Martha Davis in the Brennan Center for Justice. "The fact is that post-Dobbs, it is the draconian abortion restrictions adopted in many states that are the international outliers."
Joseph Feaster ’75, an attorney, former president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and current member of the city’s Black Men & Boys Commission, will serve as the chair of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's new Reparations Task Force. “We are looking forward to determining recommendations for how we reckon with Boston’s past while charting a path forward for Black people whose ancestors labored without compensation and who were promised the 40 acres and a mule they never received,” said Feaster in Boston.com.