Only when CDC guidance on COVID-19 fully takes the social determinants of health into account will it begin to make a dent in our ability to control the pandemic, writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in a piece for the Petrie Flom Center's Bill of Health Blog.
Listen back: On the Workers Comp Matters podcast, Professor Emily Spieler dismisses hype that Covid-19 will crush workers’ comp systems.
“The ad is correct," Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of Northeastern Law's Criminal Justice Task Force, tells 7News Boston. "It is a good recruiting tool to say to anyone in that job, ‘No matter what you do, whether you commit a crime, put your knee on someone’s neck for nine minutes, you will not be held financially liable."
Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, has been named to the Most Influential 100 Latinas of 2021 list by
There's a lot of talk about getting back to normal after COVID-19, but there's a range of issues where getting back to normal isn't desirable, Professor Leo Beletsky tells ABC News.
The anniversary of Northeastern University’s Latinx Student Cultural Center reminded one of its visionaries, Wiliam Rodriguez ’98, of progress made and dreams fulfilled—including his own.
Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that labels conspiracies to commit hate crimes as lynchings, which would make them a federal crime if the measure is signed into law. Professors Margaret Burnham and Jonathan Kahn say it will be noteworthy to watch how the case proceeds amid a news coverage cycle that is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an op-ed co-authored for CommonWealth, Professor Carol Steinberg writes about the need for more adaptable housing highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis.
“The protests are about the lingering and still accumulating costs of American racial ideology and the harms ensuing from failure to acknowledge the wrongs, to “call their names”," writes Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), in her latest blog.
Professor Deborah Ramirez joins the PowerPLAY podcast to make the case for mandatory professional liability insurance for police officers.