“It sounds like the defense lawyers are doing the best they can with less than ideal facts,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The LA Times. “Being an effective trial lawyer is managing the rules of evidence but also managing the narrative, so that you create sympathy and support for your side in a way that’s almost complementary to the evidence.”
“Real privacy data legislation would protect people regardless of what they choose, and consent to,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The Boston Globe. “This legislation doesn’t seem to offer that… It’s just going to allow business as usual.”
I would be surprised if the court ruled in a way that completely decapitated the governor's ability to respond to the pandemic, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Law360. "I don't think we have a dynamic here that we have in some states with that level of tension between the governor and the legislature."
Professor Deborah Ramirez is quoted in The Boston Globe about a fund that has been set up in memory of her husband, Chief Justice Ralph Gants: “My husband really worked his heart out, trying to rid the criminal justice system of racism and trying to improve access to justice.”
Listen back: On WYNC’s The Takeaway, Professor Margo Lindauer ’07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, describes how survivors of domestic violence are affected by COVID’s impact on the courts.
In a piece for SCOTUSblog, Professor Blaine Saito writes about the issues at stake in CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service, a tax case to be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow that has “great implications for jurisdiction, administrative law and the tax system overall.”
In an op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Carol Steinberg '80 calls on the Massachusetts Legislature to fulfill the promise of the ADA in its 30th anniversary year: "We must rally together to see that H.4425 is passed this session."
Join President Aoun and the Northeastern community in paying homage to homage to the life and values of Dr. King through the power of film, music and conversation. This event will feature the premier of Murder in Mobile, a short documentary about NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ) and one family's untold story of race and justice. The screening will be followed by a dialogue with Professor Margaret Burnham, director of CRRJ, and Roderick L. Ireland, former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Featuring music by Danielle Ponder '11.
“The consequence of longtime Gates strategies is that they go along with corporate control over supply,” Professor Brook Baker, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. “In a pandemic, that is a real problem.”