But the fact that there’s any debate at all over whether the president can, in essence, declare himself above the law is owed to Alexander Hamilton’s push to grant the executive a sweeping set of powers. “Hamilton argued for a broad grant of power,” Martha Davis, a Constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, told Mic. “He […]

Daniel Faber is the director of the Northeastern University Environmental Justice Research Collaborative. With projected sea level rises for the area of anywhere between six and 15 feet, Faber says the risk for catastrophic failures at sites like Chelsea’s fuel storage tanks are high. “You’re looking at the flooding of some very significant areas of Chelsea and Boston, […]

Ieke DeVries’s summer is much more social than it was last year, now that she’s working in a lab. But she’s not studying one of the natural sciences, like most lab rats. De Vries is part of Northeastern University’s new Violence and Justice Research Laboratory, housed in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. “The physical […]

One recent change has MLB partnering with Northeastern University in Boston as the league’s preferred education provider. That’s part of moving players toward more traditional higher-ed opportunities. For more on that, we spoke with Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Legal scholars said it’s not clear whether the president can reimpose discrimination in a federal department. “There is a strong argument that substantively speaking the policy change would violate [the] law against sex discrimination,” said Libby Adler, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “It depends on what prohibitions against ‘sex’ discrimination […]

Make no mistake — Trump’s speech on Monday went well beyond the bounds of anodyne patriotism that has characterized remarks delivered to the scouts by past presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. As he has repeatedly, Trump dwelled on his Electoral College victory map, which was “so red it was unbelievable.” He derided the […]

“Congress definitely should be considering the impact of the Obamacare repeal on job growth in health care,” said Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “The question is does the repeal have a positive impact on job growth in other sectors of the economy?”

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 […]