March 14, 2022
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Evan Darryl Walton will join the university on July 1, 2022, as an associate clinical professor and director of the Community Business Clinic.
March 14, 2022
President Biden has announced his intent to appoint Hillary Dunn Stanisz ’07 to serve on the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Stanisz is a senior attorney at the Disability Law Center, the protection and advocacy agency for Massachusetts, where she focuses on advocating for appropriate community supports and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and conducting abuse and neglect investigations.
March 14, 2022
NuLawLab's ground-breaking Virtual Courthouse Tour is featured in preLaw magazine!
March 11, 2022
Dean James Hackney is among 38 Black law school deans who have sent a letter of support too the U.S. Senate Leadership and the Committee on the Judiciary for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
March 10, 2022
An arrest warrant against Putin doesn’t guarantee a conviction, says Professor Alexandra Meise, an international law expert. Charging him for war crimes could take years.
March 10, 2022
The Pennsylvania court's controversial 2021 ruling to vacate Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction had “nothing to do with guilt or innocence,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells People magazine. "It's really more of a reaction to what I would consider a prosecutorial misstep."
March 09, 2022
“The present Supreme Court is an ideological one that’s not sensitive to opinion polls or popular views,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells News@Northeastern. “I see no evidence that the court is interested in changing the death penalty.”
March 09, 2022
Gizela Zaqueu ’23 and Genevievre Miller ’23 were awarded Best Petitioner Brief at the regional Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition held during the 54th Northeast Black Law Students Association’s (NEBLSA) regional convention in February.
March 07, 2022
“The First Amendment assumes an equality between speakers that really doesn’t reflect the reality that exists between doctors and patients concerning medical matters, and doesn’t protect the interests of laypeople in getting sound information,” Professor Claudia Haupt tells Bloomberg News.
March 07, 2022
“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
March 04, 2022
What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society? Professor Wendy Parmet writes about the fragility of American public health in the March issue of Scientific American.
March 04, 2022
“There are not yet good systems for providing vaccines in humanitarian and conflict situations,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law. “The influx of large populations living in crowded conditions will result in increased transmission but little protection.”