SJC Rules On Case Challenging The State's Prostitution Laws

Professor Daniel Medwed joins WGBH News to discuss recent developments at the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court: I think the most notable recent decision concerns a Massachusetts law that punishes people for profiting from sex trafficking — so-called pimps."

Group Of Attorneys Believe Boston Marathon Bomber Should Be Granted New Trial

A jury anywhere in the country might have decided that this young man should be executed, but at least would have a sense that it was a group of people who were dispassionate, Professor Michael Meltsner tells Boston 25 News. Meltsner has signed on to an amicus brief supporting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a new death penalty trial.

Reopening Schools Requires Better State Support

It is decades of disinvestment in the public education of our most vulnerable students that’s keeping students out of classrooms, not teachers unions or uninformed school boards disregarding the experts," writes Professor Jared Nicholson in an op-ed for The Boston Globe.

Chasm Opens Between States Over Abortion Pills and Out-of-State Care

“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”