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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ Review: Uncovering Brilliance

Ms. Brothers is a professor of art and architecture at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome.”
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How long can the jury deliberate in Karen Read’s murder trial?

Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, told MassLive on Thursday that jury deliberations going on for several days is likely an indication jurors are taking their jobs seriously and looking at the evidence closely.
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What the Supreme Court ruling on social media means

Those lines of communication became important ways for the government and social media companies to trade information about fake accounts or malicious foreign actors looking to destabilize the United States, said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University.
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The Endangered Small College

Green Mountain College, for example, was consistently named the greenest college in the country by multiple media outlets, an institution that turned its athletic fields into a petroleum-free working farm, where students might raise and slaughter their own livestock — yet it still closed in 2019. Mills College, absorbed by Northeastern University in 2022, devoted itself to an unusual, lauded, and sometimes-controversial version […]
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Crocs Case at Federal Circuit Set to Shape False Advertising Law

Alex Roberts, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written extensively about false advertising law, also took issue with the Colorado district court’s conclusion that because the promotional references concern patents, they aren’t subject to the Lanham Act.
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Inside the rise of New England ‘pink slime’ news outlets: ‘My worst fear is someone looks at this and thinks it’s real’

“It just seemed like a bizarre amalgamation of irrelevant press releases the last time I looked at it,” said Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy.
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What Does China’s Moon Sample Mission Success Mean for the U.S.-China Space Race?

“This appears to be an approach from China that is about acknowledging the importance of international cooperation in outer space exploration,” says Mai’a Cross, the director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures at Northeastern University.

Column: In Biden-Trump debate, what they do — not what they say — could determine the winner

But as Alan Schroeder, a debate expert at Northeastern University, noted, “There are other, better venues to learn about policy positions.”
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Judges Rebel Against the Supreme Court

Dan Urman, a law professor who specializes in the Supreme Court at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that it was important for the justices to do so because the court “needs public support for its legitimacy.”
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Trump and Biden are facing off very early in CNN’s presidential debate. Here’s why

Alan Schroeder, a professor emeritus of journalism at Northeastern University, sees some risk for Trump, amid a looser debate format. “He’s done so many TV events of different types that he sort of thinks he can wing it,” Schroeder, who is an expert on presidential debates, told Reuters.
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How will Karen Read’s trial end? Here’s what legal experts had to say.

Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University, noted the growing public fascination in Read’s case. “It seems to have morphed from largely a local story to one with national reverberations,” he said in an email interview. 
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Your Business Needs Responsible AI By Design Now. Here’s How To Get Started

 Leaders can look to current laws around privacy, consumer protection and protection of classes of individuals for guidance now, suggests Michael Bennett, an AI business expert and researcher at Boston’s Northeastern University.