We Need Punitive Damage Awards to Protect Public Health

”Punitive-damage awards in public-health cases are a way to change bad corporate conduct,” writes Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, in an op-ed for The Hill. ”They don’t tear down our society, they make it better.”

Facebook’s Plan to Put ‘Privacy First’ Could Create New Problems

“It’s one thing to see a random link that is blatantly false being shared on a News Feed by someone you barely know at all. But it’s another thing entirely when someone you know sends you a blatantly false story or a deep fake video,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells CNN News. “You might actually trust it even more.”

Reviewing "Human Rights in Global Health"

The major takeaway from Human Rights in Global Health is the need to understand the history, process, attitudes, and struggles that have either been overcome or continue to act as barriers to full integration of health policies in international law, writes Jennifer Huer, managing director of NUSL's Center for Health Policy and Law, in a book review for the Human Rights at Home Blog.

Baker Looks to Rein in Drug Prices in Budget Proposal

“We need to understand that doing nothing isn’t working either, that this is a very complicated but very distorted marketplace and that the lack of intervention by the government is not working,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Huntington News. “I think it will be in the interest of the drug companies, actually, not only the patients, to negotiate in good faith and come up with something that can work for everybody.”

Seeking Justice for Hidden Deaths

Listen back: Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), is interviewed on NU Library’s What’s New Podcast.