Lawyers and researchers at Northeastern’s Public Health Advocacy Institute are opening a new front in their battle against online and mobile gaming, helping craft federal restrictions that could seriously curtail betting on sports events on smartphones.

Additionally, said Katherine Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at the Northeastern University School of Law, such a decision would undercut the authority of the FDA and upend the drug-approval process in ways that could drastically slow biomedical research. “It will really just undermine the FDA’s authority, and in damaging ways,” Kraschel said.

For example, the trio’s paper doesn’t explain how to predict when metrics, or which ones, will show abrupt improvement in an LLM, said Tianshi Li, a computer scientist at Northeastern University.

“His name was stained, and we needed to cleanse that stain,” said Rose Zoltek-Jick, a law professor at Northeastern University and associate director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which researches racially motivated Jim Crow-era homicides.

Some analysts warn that moving too quickly could backfire on James, a Democrat. “It’s a bit of a tightrope balance,” said Nikos Passas, a law professor at Northeastern University. 

“There will be a lot of questions about the value of these assets and who else has interests in them,” said Nikos Passas, a Northeastern University law professor and asset recovery expert.

But that too may be a hard sell. “Meme stocks notoriously go up and down like crazy,” said Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University. “Whoever makes a decision to deal with Trump at this point will be making a political as well as a financial decision.”