Jeremy Paul Professor of Law j.paul@northeastern.edu 617.373.3307 Expertise constitutional law, COVID-19, jurisprudence, property Jeremy Paul in the Press The new $1 Trump coin doesn’t just buck norms. Experts say it also breaks laws “The law prohibits, currently, on currency, the likeness of any person — not just the president — who is alive,” said Jeremy Paul, a professor and former dean at Northeastern University School of Law who specializes in constitutional law. Treasury unveils commemorative coin featuring Trump’s face Jeremy Paul, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, joins to discuss how the Thayer Amendment from 1866 prohibits the use of any living person’s likeness on U.S. currency. Trump administration seeks to slash scientific funding for disfavored topics, researchers say A regulatory change to federal funding could be more binding than the administration’s previous strategy and harder to challenge with lawsuits, said Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University. How Trump’s Approval Rating Has Changed with Black Voters as of Juneteenth “Holidays are established by Congress and cannot be revoked just by a president,” Northeastern University law professor Jeremy Paul told Newsweek. Mass Live How is it legal for the U.S. to attack Iran? What happens next? “The question is, how do you define what counts as war? But if it really is war, then yes, Congress has the power to declare war,” Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, told MassLive. The Times UK Was it legal for US to strike Venezuela and capture Maduro? Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law expert at Northeastern University, said: “You cannot say this was a law enforcement operation and then turn around and say now we need to run the country.” Was the US operation to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro legal? “You can’t say it was a police operation and then claim that we now need to govern the country,” Jeremy Paul, a professor of constitutional law at Northeastern University in the United States, told Reuters. “It simply doesn’t make sense.” Deutsche Welle Legal concerns surround US capture of Venezuela’s Maduro Jeremy Paul, an expert on constitutional law at Northeastern University in the US, said Rubio’s argument was “plausible,” but subsequent statements by the president about the US “running” Venezuela and its oil fields “completely undermined” that rationale. U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that probably won’t matter in court Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the Trump administration had no legal authority to stage the military intervention, but he agreed that it probably would not derail Maduro’s prosecution. Was the US capture of Venezuela’s president legal? “You cannot say this was a law enforcement operation and then turn around and say now we need to run the country,” said Jeremy Paul, a professor at Northeastern University specializing in constitutional law. “It just doesn’t make any sense.” Jeremy Paul for Northeastern Global NewsFauci contempt action: His pending legal predicament, explained by Tanner Stening August 6, 2026 Can Elon Musk pay TSA agents directly during the government shutdown? by Tanner Stening March 25, 2026 Will Washington D.C. become a state? An expert explains what it would take by Cody Mello-Klein August 19, 2025 Can a president eliminate mail-in voting by executive order? by Erin Kayata August 18, 2025 Is there anything actually stopping Donald Trump from carving his face into Mount Rushmore? by Tanner Stening June 30, 2025 Could Trump run as vice president in 2028, then become president a third time? by Tanner Stening March 31, 2025 Judges have issued preliminary injunctions against some of Donald Trump’s executive orders. What does that mean? by Tanner Stening February 12, 2025 Why would anyone refuse a presidential pardon? Northeastern law experts explain by Cyrus Moulton January 28, 2025 Where does Hunter Biden’s pardon rank in the history of presidential pardons? Pretty low, says a constitutional law expert by Cody Mello-Klein December 2, 2024 Is Biden to blame for Democrats losing in 2024? Did the ‘transitional candidate’ exit the race too late? by Tanner Stening November 7, 2024