The highest court in Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court, holds oral arguments in appellate cases from September to May. But it doesn’t have the summer off. WGBH’s Morning Edition’s Joe Mathieu spoke with WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed about the major judicial opinions produced by the SJC this summer, as well […]

National governments are increasingly confronting a shrinking domestic policy space, hemmed in by the chilling effect of closed-door arbitration that prioritizes profits over public health. As long as international trade agreements permit investor-state disputes, Eli Lilly, Phillip Morris, Novartis, and other companies will continue to bully sovereign nations into serving their bottom line. As we […]

If you read one book this summer, let it be “Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future” by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and Northeastern University’s Jeff Howe, who coined the term crowdsourcing.

“I thought the police did a good job under difficult circumstances, but their failure to allow press access to the bandstand was an exception to that,” says Dan Kennedy, an associate professor at Northeastern University School of Journalism who was covering the counter protesters heading toward the Boston Common for WGBH.

“More often than not, it undermines confidence in the verdict, which is enough to get a new trial,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Boston’s Northeastern University.

John Wihbey, a media professor at Northeastern University who has studied Twitter, told BuzzFeed News that it is widely believed verification “generates an additional layer of trust.” Wihbey said the boost in perceived legitimacy may be waning today, (Yiannopoulos also said verification isn’t what it used to be) but the perception still lingers.

John Wihbey, associate professor of journalism and media at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, told ThinkProgress that there is no one reason driving the decisions behind the different coverage of these attacks. “There’s some xenophobia/stereotyping that is at work, and at the same time its indisputable that more planes fly into Paris and Barcelona from […]

Study after study has shown that poor communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, especially flooding. They’re more likely to live in floodplains and flood-prone areas and be more dependent on public infrastructure. They’re also less likely to have access to resources to deal with flooding, according to Neenah Estrella-Luna, a former law […]

“Poor adherence to CPAP remains the major impediment to effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea,” lead study author Lichuan Ye of Northeastern University in Boston told Reuters Health.

When students first walk into the newest building at Northeastern University, they sometimes utter an audible “Wow.” The students get it right. This is a five-star piece of architecture. In an era when Boston is being swamped with buildings that are little more than boxes of leasable space, ISEC reminds you that architecture can aim […]

The upshot? The weight of evidence shows that disaster-response managers should focus less on speed, sea walls and sandbags and more on preserving people’s social ties, says Prof. Aldrich, who has studied both the Japanese and Gulf Coast catastrophes. “After Katrina, people were put on a bus and not told where they were going. When […]

The generational disparity is very clear to Prof. Suzanna Walters, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, whose research work encompasses queer identity.