Authors, Jennie Stephens is Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Tiffany Joseph is an associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University.

Faulk got involved in street outreach work in his early 20s after seeing too many people not reach their 21st birthday. Faulk, who holds a doctorate in law and policy from Northeastern University, said he wanted to “give back to a neighborhood that had given me so much.”

The Northeastern University student was underwhelmed when she saw photographs online of “The Embrace,” a 20-foot-tall sculpture depicting the interlocking arms of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, in brown patinated bronze.

Northeastern University Professor Emeritus Barry Bluestone has studied housing policy for decades and traditionally opposes rent control measures. But he said Wu’s proposal reconciles tenant rights and developer interests.

“This finding reverses a decision that is as wrong today as it was 82 years ago,” Margaret Burnham, founder of Northeastern University Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which tracks such cases, wrote in an email. “It is never too late.”

Still, the lack of a body gives defense lawyers more “wiggle room” in their effort to establish reasonable doubt, said Daniel S. Medwed, who teaches courses in criminal law at Northeastern University School of Law.