But while defendants are entitled to due process and the right to present a defense, “that right, in my view, does not encompass putting demands on how the prosecution tries its case or which witnesses it chooses to call,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University.

The study looked at how the two kinds of CFOs performed in high-growth industries, such as  pharmaceuticals, electronics, and business services as well as low-growth industries, such as transportation, machinery and petroleum. The upshot was that companies with accounting CFOs tended to be more risk averse. CFOs with accounting backgrounds  in high-growth industries on average […]

Leo Beletsky, a drug policy expert and law professor at Northeastern University, said he noticed opioid use reaching a crisis point in 2006. “A response has been very sluggish,” Beletsky said. “The administration has been really playing it safe in a lot of ways. …  It has been theoretically on the top of their agenda, […]

“I think because of some of the professional incentives to get convictions and maintain convictions, and political incentives to be tough on crime, the justice role takes a back seat to the advocacy role,” says Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent. […]

It’s natural to think of innovation as happening in some instantaneous transformative way, but the transition to our own future will likelier involve a great mix of evolving technologies—a transportation landscape populated with smart cars, autonomous cars and, muses Fernando Suarez, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Business, “maybe flying cars for some longer […]

A business incubator program at Northeastern gave them $2,500 in seed money, enough to build their first prototype. This earned them the chance to seek investors at the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The three entrepreneurs set a goal of $60,000, but $234,000 rolled in. “That’s when we knew it was an idea that had legs,” Hertig […]

Other scientists dismissed the study. Matthew Nisbet, who studies climate communications at Northeastern University, said it was seriously flawed. He said looking at where people live is a not a good indicator of the weather people prefer. Nisbet and University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Renee McPherson said politics, more than weather, colors people’s perception of […]