Juliette Kayyem, a national leader in homeland security and crisis management, will deliver a special presentation on media, elections and voting rights at Northeastern Law’s 16th annual Brown Forum for Women in the Law Conference on May 3, 2024.

A group of the nation’s preeminent law professors and legal scholars, including Professor Martha Davis, has submitted an amicus brief in Texas v. Zurawski, a case challenging Texas’ abortion ban.

Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), is representing the town of Brookline in a challenge to its tobacco-free generation law. “What the SJC does in this case may not have any impact on whether a policy may withstand a legal challenge in other states,” he tells The Boston Globe. “But it certainly would show it’s possible, given the right legal environment, to implement a policy that is truly an end-game policy for tobacco sales.”