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 […]

“Once this sort of behavior becomes normalized, it becomes harder to push back on both as a consumer and as a matter of policy,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

After realizing that the erasure of Black women was a societal problem, Northeastern University professor Moya Bailey came up with the term misogynoir in 2010. Like Bailey, it addresses race and gender bias. Through her life’s work, she also explores culture and sexuality.

The Supreme Court decision also doesn’t mean that violent criminals can walk around on the streets, said Hemanth C. Gundavaram, a professor and co-director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law.

“This is an important issue that will affect quite a few people,” said Rachel Rosenbloom, co-director of the Northeastern University School of Law Immigrant Justice Clinic. “The question here is, does he get to have his day in court or not? The question [also] is: Is he eligible to apply” for special consideration?

Google also is the biggest enabler of data harvesting, through the world’s two billion active Android mobile devices. Because Google’s Android OS helps companies gather data on us, then Google is also partly to blame when troves of that data are later used improperly, says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at […]

The New-York Historical Society and the Museum of the City of New York also sent out a call for posters, which are now on display in current exhibitions. Faculty from Northeastern University in Boston collected thousands of signs from the local march and added them to an online display titled “Art of the March.”