January 14, 2022
On January 14, 2022, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), appeared before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to provide testimony in support of her nomination to the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
January 12, 2022
“Racial Segregation and the Data-Driven Society: How Our Failure to Reckon with Root Causes Perpetuates Separate and Unequal Realities,” a paper by Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 that is forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, is cited by Wired.
January 11, 2022
Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung and Erin Stewart ’21, a Skadden Fellow at Citizens for Juvenile Justice, are co-authors of “Criminalizing a “Rough Life”: A Study of Systems Involvement Among Incarcerated People in Massachusetts”— a report illuminating the results of Phase 1 of Northeastern’s Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline (C2P) jail and prison survey.
January 11, 2022
Amelia Caramadre ’21, a legal fellow with Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice in Action Lab, talks to Filter magazine about the work the lab is doing “to end the practice of preferentially prescribing parolees any one drug over another, and mandating or denying certain addiction medications.”
January 11, 2022
“After Willie Horton, there was this perception that the parole board would be really careful with any an all release decisions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells
The Boston Globe. “You have this culture that over the last 30 years has been more cautious politically.”
January 10, 2022
Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who will be sworn in today as the first Black woman US Attorney for Massachusetts!
January 07, 2022
Congratulations to Kelly Cooke ’19, who has been selected as a referee for the Women’s ice hockey games at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing!
January 07, 2022
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today about two of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 regulations. At stake “is not only the future of the pandemic but also the federal government’s capacity to respond to continuing and future health threats,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, in a guest essay for The New York Times.
January 06, 2022
“In the absence of principled guidelines, the [major questions] doctrine serves as a major transfer of federal policymaking power from the elected branches to an unelected and unaccountable judiciary,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in a co-authored piece for the Petrie Flom Center’s Bill of Health Blog. “Worse, it offers those who are regulated yet another way to challenge any and all federal health regulations, allowing litigation to become our primary means of making public health policy.”
January 05, 2022
Northeastern Law is thrilled to announce the appointment of Quaime Lee ’02 as assistant dean for co-op and career development. In this role, Lee is heading the Center for Co-op and Career Development — Lee and his team provide counseling and strategic advice to students undertaking full-time co-op work experiences across the globe and also offer critical assistance to students in the post-graduate job acquisition process.
January 05, 2022
Adjunct Professor Jamy Buchanan Madeja comments on the recent Sex and the City reboot for The New York Times: “The show depicts 50-something people as if they were actually old already, not middle-aged.”
January 05, 2022
Northeastern University School of Law is proud to announce the Judith Olans Brown Forum for the Advancement of Women in the Law has named Debra Katz, a nationally recognized and honored civil rights attorney, as its first Practitioner-Residence. Katz will visit the law school for three days from March 9 to March 10, 2022.