After the star’s guilty verdict, Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern’s School of Law, said it may inspire other women to come forward – and encourage prosecutors to take note. He told The Independent that the verdict “might embolden prosecutors to consider pursuing criminal action in their own jurisdictions.”

“For decades, this intolerable, unacceptable behavior was the subject of whispering and now, we’re shouting, and the shouting is being heard,” says Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern’s School of Law. “In many of these cases, the rules and the cultural norms historically were stacked against victims, and now, maybe the balance is shifting, making […]

While more and more resources are being devoted to using AI to predict, prevent, or classify gang violence, some in the field are pushing back against the practice. Christo Wilson, assistant professor in computer and information science at Northeastern University, notes to the Verge that the AI’s predictions are only as good as the data […]

Christo Wilson, assistant professor in computer and information science at Northeastern University and a co-organizer of the Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning conference, also has concerns about the model’s potential to reinforce errors and biases. “If I train a model to predict people’s height, we know how to interpret the output and gauge […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who studies prosecutorial accountability, says it’s important to distinguish the constitutional violations in Chapman from the lesser violation of the judge’s orders in the 2016 case. “But taken together, it suggests a pattern of disregard for disclosure obligations, both constitutional and statutory,” Medwed said.

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, disagreed, saying he thinks the Globe’s reaction was appropriate. But he added that “there’s a danger that it looks like Globe management has prejudged Cullen, even if that’s not the case.”

A 2017 study by researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard University found that nearly one in five gun sales are made to people who didn’t go through a background check. The Brady Campaign cited evidence that Armslist searches for private sellers were 240 percent higher in states that don’t require background checks on such sales, […]

Massachusetts is well-known for its strong gun control laws, but last week that reputation may have taken a beating after the Supreme Judicial Court struck down a law banning civilian possession of stun guns. Now lawmakers on Beacon Hill have 60 days to hammer out new stun gun regulations. WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law […]

As John Kwoka, an antitrust expert at Northeastern University Law School, has written, there was once a long line of Supreme Court cases that held that the “elimination of a firm perceived to be a potential entrant could violate the antitrust statutes as much as a merger between actual competitors,” on the theory that a […]

John Kelly attributes his success to carefully picking the right college for himself – Northeastern University in Boston – because it had a strong focus on career development.

Jack Levin, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University who has studied serial killers, said a military and law enforcement background would make sense with what’s known about the East Area Rapist.

Earlier in the year, a Northeastern University law student named Kyleen Burke emailed Washington’s cousin Tyrone Higginbottom, who then put her in touch with the rest of the family. She told them that she had done extensive research on their grandfather’s life and death as part of Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which […]