Is Harvey Weinstein’s California conviction in jeopardy after N.Y. appeals ruling? Over the last three decades, a movement has grown to relax the law in sexual assault cases, according to Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern who used to be a criminal appellate attorney in New York.
Harvey Weinstein rape conviction overturned by N.Y. court; California conviction stays “You could think of New York as a dinosaur, but I think of it as New York being very vigilant of protecting the civil rights of defendants,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University who is a former criminal appellate attorney in New York.
As Colleges Struggle, Universities Need Merger-Focused Panels As mergers increasingly occur—such as those of St. Augustine College and Lewis University, Northeastern University and Mills College, and Saint Joseph’s University and University of the Sciences—an engaged strategic planning committee takes on more importance.
TikTok has promised to sue over the potential US ban. What’s the legal outlook? Among key questions will be whether the legislation interferes with the overall content of speech on TikTok, notes Elettra Bietti, an assistant professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, because content-based restrictions meet a higher level of scrutiny.
Boston Magazine What Does My Garage Say About Me? Garages like mine are the utility drawer for items that aren’t allowed in the house, “a kind of purgatory for stuff,” says Tim Love, associate professor of architecture at Northeastern University and founding principal at Utile, a Boston- and Providence-based architecture and planning firm.
CBS News 19 jurors seated so far in Karen Read murder trial, opening statements likely in one week “I think it’s fairly unusual to have 20 jurors with the idea of winnowing it down to 16, but everything about this case has been pretty unusual,” said Northeastern School of Law professor Daniel Medwed.
Is Your Food Packaging Bulging? Here’s When That May Not Be A Good Thing According to Darin Detwiler, the chair of the National Environmental Health Association’s food safety program and associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University, examining food packaging is a key step to staying healthy.
CBC News Bluey’s surprise new episode was based on this dad’s chaotic family camping trip Meryl Alper, an associate professor in communication studies at Northeastern University in the U.S., tells us more about this charming blue heeler dog.
Boston.com Jury selection continues in Karen Read’s murder trial, but opening statements are on the horizon In an interview prior to jury selection, Northeastern University criminal law professor Daniel Medwed walked Boston.com through some methods of filtering out prospective jurors who show signs of possible bias.
Will Free Medical School Diversify the Physician Workforce? In spite of these politicized efforts, Idia Binitie Thurston, associate director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University, said institutions should not abandon their diversity goals.
Dubai Floods Expose Weaknesses to a Rapidly Changing Climate But it will take “significant data analysis” to ascertain the role, if any, it played in making the rains more extreme, according to Auroop Ganguly, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Often major floods in a city relate to urban drainage and related infrastructures,” he said.
Boston Magazine The 150 Most Influential Bostonians of 2024 Includes Joseph Aoun, President, Northeastern University at No. 50.