Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written at length about prosecutorial misconduct, said he was “deeply troubled” by Becerra’s decision to pursue the death penalty. “The fact that a different prosecution team ― state, and not the county ― is pursuing it does not remove the taint,” Medwed said. “Before pursuing […]

The emerging Trump strategy, including failed plans to repeal Obamacare protections that enabled millions to get substance abuse treatment, “doesn’t bode well for the public health approach, such as it is,” said Leo Beletsky, a law professor at Northeastern University who specializes in health and drug policy. He points to Republican rhetoric about criminalizing the […]

The problem with this is that Gorsuch is not the issue. Though severely conservative, as Mitt Romney might say, he is well-qualified, according to the American Bar Association. By appointing Gorsuch, Trump chose a justice whom any Republican president might have picked. It’s not going too far to say that the Gorsuch appointment was the […]

After the rally was done and after the speeches and chants, many of the tens of thousands of people who had gathered in January for the Boston Women’s March protesting Donald Trump’s presidency dropped the signs they carried along Boston Common. The signs were destined for the trash, but a group from Northeastern University is […]

t’s well established that women are judged more harshly on their appearance than men are, as Kelsey McKinney wrote for Vox. Research has proven this phenomenon generally, as McKinney points out, and has also explored the ways it impacts black women in particular. O’Reilly’s comments are part of a centuries-long history of devaluing black women […]

You know the rest of the story: Clinton was forced to submit to hours of depositions, and the case led Jones’ lawyers to a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. In addition to humbling one president, the case set a powerful precedent for presidents who misbehave in their private lives — one that could get […]

Lastly, Northeastern University announced that it hired John Manferdelli, a Google engineering director, to lead its new institute for cybersecurity and privacy research and education.

Ever been hungry, tired, and rushing to class? Of course you have, and Johnny Fayad and Ali Kothari know it. As freshmen at the Northeastern University D’Amore-McKim School of Business, making it to their 8 a.m. Financial Accounting class meant sacrificing breakfast — including coffee. It might not have been very fun at the time, but […]

“The threat of court intervention remains a serious obstacle to the Abe administration’s goal of full nuclear restarts,” Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies program at Northeastern University in Boston, said by e-mail before the ruling. The ruling allows the government to move forward with part of its overall plan, he said.

Dietmar Offenhuber, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Art + Design and Public Policy, compared the yard signs to street art, a compassionate message to a broad audience. “It’s finding a different way of leading political discourse that’s not dictated by rhetoric of mass media,” Offenhuber said. “It’s finding a way […]

“The threat of court intervention remains a serious obstacle to the Abe administration’s goal of full nuclear restarts,” Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University in Boston, said by e-mail before the ruling. The removal of the ruling allows the government to move forward with part of its overall plan, […]

Massachusetts’ highest court has seen a few high-profile cases recently. WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed breaks down the recently concluded trial of New England Compounding Center chief Barry Cadden and a major decision by our Supreme Judicial Court about property tax exemptions for places of worship.