“With mandatory or coerced treatment, you actually have something that’s neither ethical nor effective,” said Leo Beletsky, professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University School of Law. “The evidence certainly does not support replacing incarceration with quote unquote mandatory rehab, which in many corners of this country looks pretty much like incarceration, just under a […]

Nicole Boyson, a finance professor at Northeastern University, said most investors, outside of professional money managers, have no business shorting stocks. “Stocks can go up forever,” Ms. Boyson said.

Northeastern University started a police academy last year that requires each trainee to introduce him- or herself to a stranger every week and report back with the story of that person, and to practise peacefully resolving violent conflicts staged by actors.

Hanlon and Gwendolyn McManus, a marine biology student at Northeastern University in Boston, describe the results in the August Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

GBH News Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about some of the cases the court is considering. 

The reporting included this quote from Alicia Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University: “The child care system needs a large-scale, immediate bailout. Full stop.”

To further prevent a surge of cases in the city, Curtatone launched a community wastewater testing program last week, in partnership with a Northeastern University professor, to monitor for the virus.

A Northeastern University study of Boston’s pilot program in 2017 found that some officers feared their conduct would be overly scrutinized and that video evidence would subject them to undue discipline.

Woodrow Hartzog is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

Alan Schroeder – Professor at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail

For example, the U.S.’s existing “PREP” pandemic legislation shields firms from almost all injury-related lawsuits unless the cause is deemed willful misconduct (a high bar). That’s an “extraordinarily broad” view, explains Wendy Parmet, professor of law at Northeastern University. 

“This was a lifeline for them, getting that money every year,” said Daniel P. Aldrich, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied the benefits. He says Japan followed a pattern of offering more money than the rural communities that hosted the plants had ever seen while convincing residents the facilities were safe.