COVID-19 Poses Unnecessary Risk for People with Disabilities
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.
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.
Northeastern Law faculty share a commitment to scholarship that promotes mutual collaboration for the common good and offers concrete approaches to pressing legal challenges. Our recent contributions to leading journals exemplify our dedication to improving public health; to devising sustainable paths to economic growth in the information age; and to defending democracy and the rule of law. We are delighted to share a selected list of recent articles.
It’s easy to think of diseases as ‘over there, them, we built a wall—problem solved.’ And that’s just not the way it works, especially with respiratory diseases,” cautions Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law.
Professor Beth Noveck, director of The Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation at Northeastern University and its partner project, The GovLab, has been named to Apolitical’s list of the 100 Most Influential Academics in Government.
“For me, being alive means learning, it means being involved,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, who recently celebrated 52 years of teaching at the school of law.
“The present Supreme Court is an ideological one that’s not sensitive to opinion polls or popular views,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells News@Northeastern. “I see no evidence that the court is interested in changing the death penalty.”
Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Geneva Health Filesthat a negative precedent is being set with respect to transparency for public resources spent in procuring COVID-19 therapeutics: “Not only has the world allowed biopharmaceutical companies to maintain monopoly control over the supply, price, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, it has also consistently allowed them to achieve their profiteering under a veil of secrecy.”
The debate over accountability aside, making choices to help combat climate change is a necessity, says Professor Alexandra Meise. “If we are going to meet the targets that experts say are necessary in order to keep global temperature rises below that magic 1.5 degrees Celsius that they call for to avoid cataclysmic consequences, then we do need every little bit that we can get.”
“DIH statutes force people into the unimaginable situation of deciding whether to call for help and risk prosecution for homicide or allow their friend or loved one to die of an overdose," writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored op-ed for USA Today.
“The harm of not being able to pass immigration reform is we’re losing out on really good people," Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, tells the Cape Cod Times.