Since he came forward, others have voiced their concern. The codirectors of the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety at Northeastern University and Tufts Medical Center filed a petition April 10 asking the FDA to withdraw Symvess’s approval and hold a public meeting of outside experts to weigh its risks and benefits.

Asked about Proctor’s lingering influence, Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University, said the ex-trooper “might be the elephant in the courtroom throughout the trial.”

Ruth Aguilera, a business professor at Northeastern University in Boston who studies corporate governance, says she expects more shareholder activists to file proposals related to child labor this year.

Now nearing two decades at the helm of Northeastern, Aoun is the proverbial dean of Boston’s major higher ed institutions. That’s one reason that he’s looked to for leadership, particularly amid the recent turmoil on college campuses.

“Nobody is withholding money for you, and suddenly it comes to the end of the year and you’re going to owe taxes,” said Tim Rupert, a professor of accounting at Northeastern University.

“It’ll definitely be different in its execution, in how each side sort of executes its strategy, but the basic narrative will be be the same,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University.

“I view it as a blow to the defense strategy but not a knockout punch,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said of the ruling. 

Read’s assertion that she’s the victim of a law enforcement frame job comes at a moment when distrust of authority and information is running high, said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University.

A public health advocacy group at Northeastern University has filed a class-action lawsuit against DraftKings over deceptive advertising in Massachusetts, and multiple former gamblers are suing the company in New Jersey over predatory practices.

It is unclear how far Trump can go in a country that has a rich tradition of investigative reporting and where freedom of speech is protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment. “His ability is limited,” said Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy.

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, offered a different perspective. Panagopoulos told Newsweek he believes Democrats should be talking about immigration and the Garcia case, which may put “a human face on the immigration issue in a way voters can connect with.”

In a 2016 study, researchers at Northeastern University examined people’s responses to news stories about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The team found that participants who were exposed to stories containing more negative words reported greater levels of distress.