But change may be coming. As of June, there’s a regular Boston Legal Innovation Meetup , founded by Ziegler and geared to attorneys, academics, and entrepreneurs. In May, Suffolk University Law School created a new Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation, intended to study how technology is changing the profession, and last month Northeastern University unveiled a […]

“Yeah, you know it really isn’t the coverage of the Red Sox as a baseball team,” said Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern university and a frequent media commentator. “I’m not worried that suddenly trades the Red Sox make will be evaluated in a more positive light, but the Red Sox are […]

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the conventional wisdom is that financial markets need to be more tightly regulated. That is certainly true, but the problem is as much about who is doing the regulating as it is about the regulations themselves. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act represents […]

How important is all of this? More than ever, if you listen to Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. Over the summer, the teen employment rate nationwide was 32 percent, the third worst showing ever. The inequities among races were even more striking: 39 percent of white teens […]

We also need to harness our collective resources so that we can better compete on the world stage. According to the World Class Cities Partnership at Northeastern University, Boston loses more college students to New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities than it retains. If we compete against each other in the innovation […]

Young Syrians living in the U.S. are working with several activist organizations to counter the cyber war the Syrian regime is waging. Mohamad Al Bardan, 26, came to the U.S. two years ago to earn a master’s degree from Northeastern University. He never returned to Syria because of the civil war. He now works for […]

Northeastern University lecturer Mary Hopper thinks she’s found the perfect way to recycle 30-year-old computers: Switch them on, boot them up, and use them to teach a new generation about the history of digital technology. “You can’t do innovation without an idea of what’s come before,” said Hopper, as she showed off archaic Apple II […]

According to international terrorism expert Max Abrahms, the military intervention “will be a restrained response by the West.” “It’s in order to preserve the international taboo over using WMDs.” The United Nations envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Wednesday that evidence of a “substance” that may have killed more than 1,000 people was found. The […]

Sepulveda struggles to get assigned as many shifts per week as possible, but even if she had the chance to work 40 hours per week (a rarity), that would at most equal $15,080 per year. In other words, the CEO of McDonald’s makes 580 times more than Nathalia Sepulveda. But no one can seriously think […]

The 13 members of the jury of military officers took less than two hours — lightning speed by courtroom standards — to reach a unanimous verdict that Maj. Nidal Hasan should be executed for his 2009 rampage at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas that left 13 dead and 31 more wounded. My sense, […]

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington (video below). The “Let Freedom Ring” commemoration today on the National Mall in Washington marked the anniversary with speeches and performances by people including President Obama, civil rights leaders and members of the King family (full video here). […]

There were temporal trends too. “The saddest was Hunter College High School,” says Bar-Yam. “It turns out that we collected data just after they came back from vacation.” Alan Mislove of Northeastern University in Boston says that using Twitter for such analysis has positives and negatives. On one hand, it gives researchers access to a large […]