In the Hartford Courant, professors Jeremy Paul and Wendy Parmet write, “Battling diseases and other threats requires hard, unglamorous work by experts who have the trust of the community and the resources necessary to get the job done. Just the kind of efforts that don’t translate easily into sound bites or tweets.”
Congratulations to Hakeem Muhammad '20 on being selected as the 2020 recipient of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Scholarship. Muhammad plans to devote himself to protecting the rights of indigent clients as a soon-to-be public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) in Roxbury.
“There are many valuable parts to play in animal protection, and the law is where I feel like I can personally have the biggest impact,” says Rebecca Cary ’09, a senior staff attorney in the Humane Society of the United States’ Animal Protection Litigation department.
“In these moments of uncertainty we all suddenly feel the need to police our own behavior, but also police other people’s behavior as well,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells Oregon Public Broadcasting.
“The intervention by the federal government in private tort law of states would be extremely problematic,” Professor Emily Spieler tells The Washington Post. “Tort law is a matter of states.”
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH’s Morning Edition to talk about the new charges against the officers in the George Floyd killing and how they could play out in court.
Listen back: On NPR’s All Things Considered, Professor Deborah Ramirez talks about her proposal to make personal liability insurance mandatory for individual police officers.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH's Morning Edition to share his thoughts on police chokeholds.
In an op-ed co-authored for The Boston Globe, Professor Deborah Ramirez and Marcus Wraight ’18 make the case for mandatory individual liability insurance for police