Nobody thought this would be easy, Professor Martha Davis tells NBC News. "It's been many decades and generations in the making, and there's excitement that it's moving forward."
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH News to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to deny Michelle Carter’s appeal in the texting suicide case.
“There is increasing popular support for recognition of women’s rights in the Constitution, and I think that’s only going to continue,” Professor Martha Davis tells The Cut. “This is a campaign that’s gone on for 96 years, and it has not gone away. There’s a lot of energy, and it’s just going to keep going.”
Professor Daniel Medwed comments for Reuters on the Weinstein defense strategy: “If the defense lawyers are perceived as being too aggressive and challenging, it’s going to make the witnesses more sympathetic.”
Rather than contain an epidemic, harsh, coercive policies often scapegoat already-marginalized populations and intensify panic rather than quell it, write Professor Wendy Parmet and Visiting Scholar Michael Sinha in a co-authored op-ed for The Washington Post.
“Quarantines and travel bans have a really, really ugly history, Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian. "" Everyone always wants to do it when people are scared. But the downsides are high and the risks are high.”"
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In January, Professor Susan Montgomery spoke before the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates in favor of a resolution encouraging courts to take a consistent approach to the "fair use" doctrine, a defense to copyright infringement that permits use of copyrighted works for free without obtaining a license or permission in appropriate circumstances. Montgomery, a member of the ABA’s section of Intellectual Property Law, contended that the resolution addresses an issue that is faced often by both copyright owners and users.