Ms. Parmet is a professor of law and the faculty co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.

On WBUR’s All Things Considered, we asked three Massachusetts scholars — Ted Landsmark, of Northeastern University; Amel Ahmed, of UMass Amherst; and Ibram X. Kendi, of Boston University — to discuss the ramifications of the Capitol attack and where we are a year later.  

Edward H. Miller is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University and the author of “A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism.”

For Northeastern University political scientist Emily Clough, attacking the root causes of poverty and injustice is best achieved by private funding efforts to hold governments accountable.

Ramiro Martinez, a homicide researcher and criminology professor at Northeastern University, cited one potential reason why the homicide rate might be lower in Massachusetts: more recent immigrants. “Many places with higher levels of immigration have had relatively lower levels of crime,” he said. “And that’s something that we’ve seen across cities and different places across […]

Criminologists, such as James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, attribute the recent nationwide violent crime to a confluence of factors, including the coronavirus pandemic, as well as conflicts over politics and race.

Some researchers, such as Northeastern University psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, have questioned whether it is possible to reliably detect emotion from a facial expression. And though already widely used, some facial recognition software has shown evidence of racial bias; one study that compared two mainstream programs found they assigned more negative emotions to Black faces […]

A new Massachusetts proposal—which seems to be getting some traction—could be, in the words of Woody Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, “the most revolutionary data-privacy legislation in the United States.”