Faculty Research That Matters 
Northeastern Law faculty share a commitment to scholarship that promotes mutual collaboration for the common good and offers concrete approaches to pressing legal challenges. Our recent contributions to leading journals exemplify our dedication to improving public health; to devising sustainable paths to economic growth in the information age; and to defending democracy and the rule of law. We are delighted to share a selected list of recent articles.
Center for Health Policy and Law
Scholars write to better the lives of their neighbors and the health of their communities.
Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law
Mary Jo Frug's Women and the Law, (Foundation Press, 5th ed., forthcoming) (co-editor).

Handbook on Race, Racism, and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming) (co-editor).

“The Law and Politics of the Centers for Disease Control: Impacts on Population Health,” Cornell Law Review Online (forthcoming).

“Transnational Legal Orders and Global Health.” In Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law, ed. P. Zumbansen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Commentary on Reynolds v. McNichols.” In Feminist Judgements: Health Law, eds. S. Mahopatra and L. Wiley (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Fact-Making: The Politics of Public Health in Abortion Law,” University of Colorado Law Review (forthcoming).


Brook Baker
Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
“Campaigning for Both Innovation and Equitable Access to COVID-19 Medicines.” In Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic While Protecting Human Rights, eds. M. Kjaerum et al. (Routledge 2021).

“Access to Medicines Activism: Collaboration, Conflicts, and Complementarities.” In Intellectual Property Law and the Right to Health: A History of TRIPs and Access to Medicine, eds. S. Ragavan and A. Vanni (Routledge, forthcoming 2021).
Leo Beletsky
Professor of Law and Health Sciences; Faculty Director, Health in Justice Action Lab
 
“No ‘Back to Normal’ After COVID-19 for Our Failed Drug Policies,” 83 International Journal of Drug Policy 102901 (2020) (co-author). 
 
 
“Toward Healthy Drug Policy in the United States — The Case of Safehouse,” 382 The New England Journal of Medicine 4 (2020) (co-author). 

“Drug-Induced Homicide: Challenges and Strategies in Criminal Defense,” 70 South Carolina Law Review (2019)(co-author).
 
“State Approaches to Addressing the Overdose Epidemic: Public Health Focus Needed,” 47 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2019 43 (2019) (co-author).
Claudia Haupt
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science
“Public Health Originalism and the First Amendment,” Washington and Lee Law Review (forthcoming 2020) (co-authored with Wendy Parmet).



“Artificial Professional Advice,” (Symposium) 18 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 55; 21 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 55 (2019). 

“Governing AI’s Professional Advice,” 64 McGill Law Journal 665 (2019).
Jonathan Kahn
Professor of Law and Biology
Kristin Madison
Professor of Law and Health Sciences; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
“Introduction to Part III (Transparency and Economics: Health Care Costs and Billing).” In Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States, eds. H.F. Lynch et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

“Health Policy and Regulation.” In Shortell and Kaluzny’s Healthcare Management: Organization Design and Behavior, eds. P. Jacobson et al (Cengage, 7th ed., 2019).
Wendy E. Parmet
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law; Director, Center for Health Policy and Law; Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
“The COVID Cases: A Preliminary Assessment of Judicial Review of Public Health Powers During a Partisan and Polarized Pandemic,” San Diego Law Review (forthcoming 2020). 

“Reynolds v. McNichols.” In Feminist Judgements: Health Law, eds. S. Mahopatra and L. Wiley (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020).

“Introduction to Public Health Law” (co-author); “Communicable Disease;” and “Social Determinants in the United States.” In The Oxford Comparative Handbook of Health Law, eds. D. Orentlicher and T. Harvey (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020). 

“Rediscovering Jacobson in the Era of COVID-19,” 100 Boston University Law Review Online 117 (2020).

“COVID-19 — The Law and Limits of Quarantine,” 382 The New England Journal of Medicine e28 (2020) (co-authored with Michael Sinha). 


“COVID-19: The First Posttruth Pandemic,” 110 American Journal of Public Health 945 (2020) (co-authored with Jeremy Paul).

Jeremy Paul
Professor of Law
“Fifty More Ways to Promote Scholarship Within a Law School Community,” 68 Journal of Legal Education (forthcoming) (co-author).

“Constitutional Spirals,” Northeastern University Law Review (forthcoming 2021) (essay responding to Jack Balkin, The Cycles of Constitutional Time, Oxford University Press 2020).

“COVID-19: The First Posttruth Pandemic,” 110 American Journal of Public Health 945 (2020) (co-authored with Wendy Parmet).
Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC)
Scholars write to help keep pace with technology and economic change so that human flourishing remains central to social and scientific invention.
Shalanda Baker
Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs

“Undue Burden,” Howard Law Journal (forthcoming 2021). 

“Harmonizing Energy Justice: An Analysis of Transdisciplinary Literatures and Activist Frameworks to Achieve a Just Energy Transition,” Environs (forthcoming 2021).

“Solar Justice,” Kansas Law Review (forthcoming 2021).

“Fighting for a Just Transition,” 52(2) NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America) Report on the Americas 144 (June 2020). 

“The Energy Justice Stakes Embedded in the Net Energy Metering Policy Debates.”  In Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism, eds. S. Krakoff, et al. (Environmental Law Institute, 2019).

“Anti-Resilience: A Roadmap for Transformational Justice within the Energy System,” 54 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2019).
Woodrow Hartzog
Professor of Law and Computer Science
“BIPA: The Most Important Biometric Privacy Law in the US?,” 96 Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions (AI NOW 2020).

“Privacy’s Constitutional Moment,” 61 Boston College Law Review 1687 (2020) (co-author).

“The Pathologies of Digital Consent,” 96 Washington University Law Review 1461 (2019) (co-author).

“The Inconsentability of Facial Surveillance,” 65 Loyola Law Review 101 (2019) (co-author).
Jessica Silbey
Professor of Law; Affiliate Professor, Department of English, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Kara Swanson
Professor of Law; Affiliate Professor, Department of History, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
“Making Patents: Patent Administration, 1790-1860,” Case Western Reserve Law Review (forthcoming 2021).

“Inventing the Woman Voter: Suffrage, Ability, and Patents,” 19 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 559 (2020). 

Ari Waldman
Professor of Law and Computer Science; Director, Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC)
“Social Norms and the Fourth Amendment,” Michigan Law Review (forthcoming) (co-author). 

“Outsourcing Privacy,” Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming) (co-author).

“Privacy Law’s False Promise,” 97 Washington University Law Review 773 (2020).



“Power, Process, and Automated Decision-Making,” 88 Fordham Law Review 613 (2019).

“Safe Social Spaces,” 96 Washington University Law Review 1537 (2019).
Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration
Scholars write in support of human rights, a level playing field and an unyielding commitment to justice.
Libby Adler
Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
“Distributive Justice for LGBTQ People.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics, ed. B. Perreau (Oxford University Press, 2020).

“Life at the Corner of Poverty and Sexual Abjection: Lewdness, Indecency, and LGBTQ Youth.” In Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and Law, ed. C. Ashford (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019). 

“You Play, You Pay: Feminists and the Child Support Enforcement System in the US.” In Governance Feminism: A Handbook, eds. J. Halley et al. (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) (co-author). 
Dan Danielsen
Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society
“Situating Human Rights Approaches to Corporate Accountability in the Political Economy of Supply Chain Capitalism.” In Power to the People? Private Regulatory Initiatives, Human Rights and Supply Chain Capitalism, eds. D. Brinks et al. (Penn Press, 2020).
Martha Davis
Professor of Law; Faculty Director, NuLawLab; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
The COVID-19 Crisis and Human Rights (Routledge, forthcoming 2021) (co-editor).

“Finding International Law ‘Close to Home’: The Case of Human Rights Cities.” In Research Handbook on International Law and Cities, eds. H. Aust et al. (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2021). 

Research Handbook on Poverty and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2021) (co-editor).
 
“Freedom From Thirst: A Right to Basic Household Water,” 42 Cardozo Law Review (forthcoming 2021).

“Get Smart: Human Rights and Urban Intelligence,” 47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 971 (2020).

“Infertility and Human Rights: A Jurisprudential Survey,” 40 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 1 (2020).
Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary Education
“Autocorrecting for Whiteness,” Boston University Law Review (forthcoming 2021). 
Stephanie Hartung
Teaching Professor
Karl Klare
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law
“Critical Legal Realism in a Nutshell.” In Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory, eds. E. Christodoulidis et al. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) (co-author).
Daniel Medwed
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice
Criminal Law: Problems, Statutes, and Cases (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., forthcoming 2021) (co-author).


Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies, and Perspectives (West Academic, 7th edition, 2020) (co-author).

Deborah Ramirez
Professor of Law
Selected Additional Scholarship
From Boston to Beijing, scholars write to offer equitable solutions to complex legal challenges.
Lee Breckenridge
Professor of Law Emerita
“Ecosystems, Legal Systems, and Governance: an Institutional Perspective.” In A Research Agenda for Environmental Economics, ed. M. Ruth (Edward Elgar, 2020).
James Hackney
Dean and Professor of Law
Margo Lindauer
Associate Clinical Professor; Director, Clinical Programs; Director, Domestic Violence Institute
“A Pandemic Within a Pandemic — Intimate Partner Violence During Covid-19,” The New England Journal of Medicine (September 16, 2020). 
Sonia E. Rolland
Professor of Law
Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (co-author).


“Embedded Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: The Uncertain Future of Trade and Investment Law.” In World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization, eds. A. Santos et al. (Anthem Press, 2019).
Blaine Saito
Assistant Professor of Law
Margaret Woo
Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
“The Disappearing Trials: Retrenchment of Litigation in North America.” In Transformation of Civil Justice: Unity and Diversity, eds. A. Usalac et al. (Springer, 2019).
Patricia Williams
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities
Giving a Damn: Race, Romance and Gone With the Wind (Harper Collins, forthcoming 2021).  
 
“Skittles and Matterphor: On Trayvon Martin’s Echo.” In “Matterphorical,” a special issue of Theory and Event: Journal of Political Theory (Johns Hopkins Press, forthcoming 2021).  

“The Endless Looping of Public Health and Scientific Racism.” In Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19. Boston: Public Health Law Watch (2020). Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 393-2020.