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.

Public health has, to some extent, become “yet another of America’s endless political battlegrounds,” said Wendy Parmet, who directs the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law. “We fight, politically, everything from Dr. Seuss to Covid,” she said. “What has happened is that in many states, as a result of […]

GBH legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to discuss the road ahead.

A growing number of colleges around the country will require students to get Covid-19 vaccinations before returning to campus. But the policies are igniting a debate over whether businesses and institutions like schools can make vaccines a condition of attendance. Photo: Northeastern University

Right now, even after concerted efforts to increase sequencing capacity, only about 3% of the country’s positive COVID-19 samples were sequenced in early April. That’s not just “unacceptable,” but “nearly worthless,” said Sam Scarpino, a bioinformatics assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.

The President only has the power to pause the federal death penalty, according to Daniel S. Medwed, a University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. “He can’t do much about the state death row cases, that’s up to the governors and legislators — but he could sweep death row clean by […]

“They’ve proven that the murder occurred,” Daniel Medwed, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, told VICE News. “Now, the focus is all on whether the officers essentially facilitated it. And the key point for prosecutors is showing that they engaged in active behavior.”  

Northeastern University journalism professor and media observer Dan Kennedy writes, “Major crimes will always receive journalistic scrutiny. Official sources may have the upper hand early on, but as reporters keep digging, they’ll generally ferret out the truth. But we need a serious rethink of how we cover routine police news. And we need to do […]

“Several years later, the Supreme Court cited it as precedent for the constitutionality of state laws requiring that children be vaccinated prior to attending school (Zucht v. King),”  Wendy E. Parmet, an expert on public health policy and a law professor at Northeastern University, told AFP Fact Check.

Right now, even after concerted efforts to increase sequencing capacity, only about 3% of the country’s positive Covid-19 samples were sequenced in early April. That’s not just “unacceptable,” but “nearly worthless,” said Sam Scarpino, a bioinformatics assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.