Morning Edition’s Marilyn Schairer spoke with WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed about the recent bill passed by the Massachusetts Legislature concerning recreational marijuana use in the Commonwealth and potential legal challenges to it.

And one expert tells Boston 25 News, in the majority of cases the switch makes no therapeutic difference. “Ninety-five percent of the time the product that the insurance company is suggesting will work. But that other 5 percent of the time it won’t work,” said Todd Brown, RPh of Northeastern University.

Northeastern University is offering veteran students improv workshops to help them find their voice as they come back into the civilian world. Improv for Northeastern veterans was the idea of Air Force veteran Andrew McCarty, the director of the university’s Center for the Advancement of Veterans and Servicemembers. Before the service, he was an amateur actor. […]

Other studies have reached similar conclusions in sectors outside of beer — gasoline, dishwashers and more. Reviewing the evidence overall, John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University, has argued that regulators have been too lenient, failing to protect consumers from exploitation by major firms.

The Massachusetts state bar has been asked to investigate two former prosecutors involved in the case of a former chemist at a state drug lab. The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/2vzPUuJ ) an attorney with the Innocence Project and a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law filed complaint letters with the Office of Bar […]

The examination report claimed “nearly half of all victims died from physical beatings or other injuries at a parent’s hands. Fathers are more likely to kill. Men killed six out 10 children, most often beating or shooting them. Fathers were at fault in 75 percent of cases when children were shot to death by a […]

Complaint letters that cite Carey’s ruling were written by Nina Morrison, an attorney with the Innocence Project, a legal services and criminal justice reform group based in New York, and Daniel Medwed, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law. The complaints were filed with the Office of Bar Counsel, which investigates claims of […]

“Yet all too often disciplinary agencies across the country neglect to sanction prosecutors for major ethical lapses,” states a complaint filed Thursday by Daniel Medwed, professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and Nina Morrison, a staff attorney with the Innocence Project.

The effect of a generation of twenty-somethings entering the workforce with little or no previous work experience is not yet known. Will they quickly pick up those basic job habits – being on time, dressing appropriately, treating customers with courtesy – that their parents learned early on waiting tables and manning shop counters? “I worry most about the […]

In the U.S., 94% of female homicide victims, whose relationship with the offender could be identified, were killed either by a known male relative or acquaintance in 2013, according to a report released from the Violence Policy Center in September 2015. The rate for domestic violence against women from intimate male partners are far more […]

Understanding the history of Puerto Rico and its current financial crisis, with Northeastern associate professor Amilcar Barreto

James Alan Fox, the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, says that watching the O.J. Simpson parole hearing seemed like we were swearing in a new president of the United States, not gawking at a convicted felon.