Professor Deborah Ramirez and Governor Maura Healey ’98 were honored for their impactful work and dedication to uplifting women by the Massachusetts Trial Court as part of the court’s third annual Women’s History Month celebration. In her remarks at the ceremony, Ramirez recounted her mother’s words to her many years ago, “Do not ever let anyone else define who you are or what you can do. Never give up on your dreams! You want to be a lawyer? Si se puede. Yes you can.”

A Northeastern Law team comprised of Jacob Cronin ’23, Grier Conville ’24, Brenda Lim ’24 and Kylie Palmer ’24 placed second out of 12 teams in the Eastern Regionals of the USPTO Patent Drafting Competition. The National Patent Drafting Competition introduces law students to issues arising in United States patent law and seeks to develop student teams’ patent application drafting, amending and prosecuting skills.

“By Hands Now Known is one of those rare books that forces us to consider in new ways the nature of our politics and society and the enduring legacy of our troubled past,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winner Eric Foner in his glowing review of Professor Margaret Burnham’s pathbreaking treatise on the Jim Crow South, in The New York Review of Books.