“The troubling thing about these public health emergencies is it does give governments really wide latitude to enact and enforce laws that we might otherwise see as violations of privacy or civil liberties,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells TIME.
Professor Kara Swanson has been named as the 2020 Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellow by the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. While in residence at the Lemelson Center in early 2021, she will work on her project, “Inventing Citizens: Race, Gender, and Patents.”
If we need to triage law enforcement activity, I’d say ‘low-level drug crimes’ are at the top of that list of things we need to take a much more flexible approach on,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Appeal.
Cassandra Dechaine JD/MPH ’21 has joined a coalition of volunteers helping health departments across Massachusetts handle the COVID-19 crisis. “It’s really hard, as someone who’s in school to try to help people as much as possible, to feel like I’m not doing anything actively,” she tells News@Northeastern. “I know the local health departments are just super, super overloaded right now, so to help mitigate and help with that as much as possible really interested me.”
With water, as with access to education, the tragedies of the pandemic are making clear how interconnected we are, and how deeply societal inequality hurts us all,"" writes Professor Martha Davis in a blog for the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights.
Community-wide responses will help to ensure "affordable water for all," says Martha Davis, newly named University Distinguished Professor.
Although we can expect some pricing moderation by industry in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it seeks to refurbish its tarnished reputation, the industry’s long-term goals are clear: more monopoly protections for a longer period of time and more opportunities to charge ever higher prices,"" cautions Professor Brook Baker in a piece for Health GAP. ""If industry succeeds, we will reap the consequences."
Professor Brook Baker responds to Costa Rica’s request for an emergency COVID-19 Technology Intellectual Property Pool (TIPP) for all countries: “Simply put, no exclusive rights should stand in the way of governments’ and the global community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Respiratory diseases don't care about walls or immigration status,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The American Independent. “If we think we can protect the public from COVID-19 or a similar outbreak by building a wall, we are in big trouble."
Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law's Immigrant Justice Clinic, joined WGN Radio's Legal Face-Off podcast, to discuss recent and upcoming Supreme Court immigration rulings.