One option for Janey, said Deborah Ramirez, a law professor at Northeastern University: The acting mayor could declare the city will no longer pay 100 percent of legal costs, judgments, and settlements associated with civil suits alleging on-the-job police misconduct and require officers to have professional liability insurance.

Margaret Y.K. Woo Brook Baker The authors are faculty directors for the Program on Human Rights in the Global Economy, at Northeastern University School of Law.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and MassBenchmarks senior contributing editor, said Massachusetts “has had more potential for a stronger rebound than the nation” because the economic shutdown in the Bay State was broader than elsewhere and led to greater job losses.

Because the U.S.’ vaccination strategy targeted high-risk individuals by age, almost all of these younger hospitalized patients have yet to be vaccinated, Samuel Scarpino, epidemiologist and assistant professor at Northeastern University, told ABC News.

Vanderbilt University and Northeastern University are among those staggering arrival times at the ceremony, so that students enter the venue in shifts, reducing the size of each gathering.

Mark A. Gottlieb is executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, where he is an adjunct professor. Richard Daynard is a University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law and president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute.

Self-folding robots, developed by Samuel Felton, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, and his team, are one of the first adopters of this language. 

Nada Sanders is a Distinguished Professor of Supply Chains at Northeastern University. “And that has not allowed the system to come back,” she said. “So I think we’re really vulnerable. We have to be very careful now, I think, to monitor very closely and begin putting in some extra buffers, so that we can have […]

David Lazer, professor of political science at Northeastern University and a researcher with the Covid States Project, said “partisan divides on behaviors and policies have been acute throughout the pandemic”, but Democrats and Republicans are more evenly split on vaccines compared with other policies against Covid-19, like mask-wearing and social distancing.

Alicia Sasser Modestino is an Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Jamie Ladge is an Associate Professor of Management at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter Business School. […]

Brook K. Baker, a Northeastern University law school professor, said in the statement that drugmakers “have chosen a policy of false scarcity in order to maximize their profits. … Pills cost pennies. Greed costs lives.”

While legal experts largely agreed the video of Floyd’s arrest was powerful evidence, Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the diversity of the jury — half of the jurors were Black or multiracial — was an undeniably important factor.