Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said he would be surprised if Carter receives the maximum sentence of 20 years. But he expects Moniz will reach some kind of a compromise or middle ground that would include some prison time. “I imagine that she’ll get prison time,” he said, adding that a five […]

On this episode of The Secret Worlds of Boston Comic Con. there’s more to comics than superheroes! We explore the comics and geek culture that take on real-world social and political issues: how fantasy worlds are being used to create change in the real world, including insight from Northeastern professor Hillary Chute.

A smarter profit-sharing system would differentiate better between, say, a video of Queen performing “Bohemian Rhapsody” or the same song playing in the background of someone’s wedding video. “What is needed is a more nuanced approach to how stuff gets monetized,” says Robert Lyons, a former digital media executive who is now a visiting lecturer […]

“As abhorrent and horrific as Michelle Carter’s behavior was, and it was appalling, I’m not sure it’s manslaughter,” said David Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston.

Leo Beletsky is a Northeastern University law professor who conducted a small study of Reddit users’ experiences with PDMPs. “In the Reddit posts, the picture that comes out is, once you’re rebuked by a provider based on PDMP data, that influences how patients decide to seek help or not seek help,” Beletsky says. “The collateral […]

“The thing is, Amazon is hiring. And so they are growing. The trick is they’re probably not growing fast enough to offset the decline in retail employees,” said Bruce Clark, a business professor at Northeastern University. Clark says the jobs gained are not balancing out the jobs lost in part because the average Amazon employee […]

Michelle Carter was convicted of manslaughter in June for convincing her friend Conrad Roy, largely through text messages, to kill himself by carbon monoxide poisoning. On Thursday, she will have her sentencing hearing. Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed discussed the sentencing process on Tuesday with “Morning Edition.”

When you find tokens of appreciation for your day, your decision making improves along with your performance across the board. In fact, researchers at Northeastern University found that individuals who felt more grateful were able to demonstrate greater patience and delay making rash decisions which have big implications when it comes to your bottom line.

Outside of New England, football fans are incredulous. Most feel that we have the worst, most immoral team in the history of any sport and that, on any given day, the Patriots will break rules and ruthlessly cheat their way to victory. Professor David DeSteno of Northeastern University, a social psychologist who has written extensively […]

Police have said two of the incidents are connected, and some have been random. Home invasions generally involve assailants who are searching for firearms, drugs, or money, and are specifically targeting their victims, though at least one of the recent incidents may have been a case of mistaken identity. “[Home invasions] revolve around the perception […]

“This process of voting for a Constituent Assembly has been totally unconstitutional and illegal,” said Leonardo Vivas, a lecturer on Latin America at Northeastern University in Boston, and the former director of the Latin America Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights.

“The chances of him getting away with a self-pardon are really low,” Martha Davis, a Northeastern University law professor, told the Daily News. “To not take a stand against that would allow the presidency to become a monarchy.”