Since 2023, Professor Aziza Ahmed and Northeastern University School of Law Professor Daniel Medwed have been leading a team of lawyers and forensic scientists in research around the legal and scientific legitimacy of the “lung float” test, which has been used as evidence to bring murder charges against mothers who experience stillbirths.

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Faculty Advisor

Daniel S. Medwed

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Email: d.medwed@northeastern.edu
Phone: 617.373.6590