Was Oceangate Negligent? Why a Successful Lawsuit Against the Submersible Company is Unlikely
”A lawsuit is unlikely unless the company misrepresented the safety of the submersible,” Professor Richard Daynard tells Northeastern Global News.
”A lawsuit is unlikely unless the company misrepresented the safety of the submersible,” Professor Richard Daynard tells Northeastern Global News.
While attacks on vaccines at the state level and in litigation have been ongoing, the growing federal attacks led by Kennedy have made this a “multipronged attack” on vaccine infrastructure, Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director of Northeastern University Law‘s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post.
Jamie Sgarro ’25 runs a nonprofit, InReach, to help LGBTQ+ community members find needed resources while attending law school to further his work in the trans rights movement and help protect trans justice. “I think the law, if put in the right hands, has enormous power to protect vulnerable people,” Sgarro says in Northeastern Global News.
“On platforms like YouTube and TikTok, doctors basically are like any other person,” Professor Claudia Haupt tells the Association of American Medical Colleges. “The underlying principle is that it’s so important to a democracy not to allow the state to restrict free speech that it’s worth living with some terrible advice floating around.”
Victor Madrigal-Borloz visited Northeastern Law yesterday and shared his experience as the United Nation’s first independent expert on sexuality and gender identity. “In situations of complete exclusion, states refuse to acknowledge individuals as good citizens, as contributors to society,” he said. “In that sense, the key factor is to acknowledge politically, that LGBT persons, that persons of sexual diversity and gender diversity, bring contribution to society.” #NUSLPride
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee for part one of its virtual two-part program on
The switch by food delivery drivers to motorized two-wheeled vehicles “is really an attempt to make low-wage, high-risk labor available so that all of us can have cheap goods and services,” Professor Hilary Robinson tells the Associated Press. “It’s perhaps one of the reasons why people are starting to realize that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.”
“Breakages in political decorum arguably began during the Obama years, and date even as far back to Bush v. Gore,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Northeastern Global News.