The PowerPLAY Show Presents Fathers Speak

Joseph Feaster Jr. ’75 recently joined the PowerPLAY Podcast to raise awareness during Suicide Prevention Month and to give voice to those healing from the loss of a loved one. 

Webinar: COVID Vaccines for the Few

On July 14, 2021, Professors Brook Baker and Martha Davis joined a panel of experts to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality and vaccinations. The webinar was sponsored by Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and University of Minnesota Law School Human Rights Center.

Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021

In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."

Who Owns the Rights to COVID Vaccines?

Watch video: Professor Brook Baker appeared on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” to make the case for a vaccine patent waiver to boost production of the COVID vaccination.

Most Abortions Are Done at Home. Antiabortion Groups Are Taking Aim.

“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” Professor Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Washington Post. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is also false.”

Professor Mark Gottlieb Discusses Recent Juul Settlement on NBC News Now

Mark Gottlieb '93, executive director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells NBC News Now “there’s quite a reckoning still to come,” for E-cigarette maker Juul Labs. The company has agreed to pay $438.5 million in a settlement with 33 states and one territory over marketing its product to teens.

Restrictions on Contraception Could Set Women Back Generations

“I don’t think whatever gains women have made in the workplace and in political representation are guaranteed,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New Yorker. ”If the Court moved us back to the nineteen-fifties in terms of access to contraception and abortion, well then, I think we would have some of the same social and economic consequences we had then.”