October 06, 2021
Northeastern University School of Law—one of the most prestigious law schools to offer an innovative part-time hybrid JD program—welcomed its inaugural FlexJD class on September 1.
October 06, 2021
Professor Martha Davis has been selected to receive the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) 2021 William R. Boggess Award for her co-authored paper “An Experiment in Making Water Affordable: Philadelphia’s Tiered Assistance Program (TAP),” which was published in the March 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
October 04, 2021
Professor Martha Davis, who recently filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade, as part of an effort to block the controversial Mississippi law that limits abortion rights, is quoted in The New York Times: “Many nations, but not all, and not our closest peers, have cutoffs that on paper are pre-viability. But they make very many exceptions that allow abortion much more liberally.”
October 01, 2021
In Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (Yale University Press, 2021), Professor Beth Simone Noveck demonstrates how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver solutions to complex and confusing contemporary problems.
October 01, 2021
Listen back: Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity, (CLIC) joined the Bloomberg Law podcast to discuss the spike in police use of geofence warrants.
September 28, 2021
The School of Law is pleased to welcome Katie Garrett ’04, an attorney with Axiom, as board president of the Alumni/ae Association for 2021-2022. Building on the experiences of the pandemic, Garett will take the lead in extending the board's global reach, with a renewed focus on women in law.
September 28, 2021
“For people who are already incarcerated, of course we should be providing them with the highest level of care possible,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The BostonGlobe. “But paying taxpayer funds to repurpose jail-like [facilities] into ‘treatment’ is not supported by science or civil rights concerns.”
September 28, 2021
In an interview with City & State New York, Carmelyn Malalis ’01 reflects on her tenure as the head of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Malalis stepped down from her role with the commission on October 1, after almost seven years of service.
September 27, 2021
Listen back: Chase Strangio '10, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, joined The Laverne Cox Show to tackle misinformation about trans people and share his insights into what is happening in our nation’s courtrooms.
September 27, 2021
The Biden administration's hands are tied on this asylum rule, say Professors Hemanth Gundavaram and Dan Urman. Why, and what's next?
September 27, 2021
Josh Nadreau ’13, a partner at Fisher & Phillips in Boston and vice president of Northeastern Law's Alumni/ae Association, provides expert commentary in a Forbes article on Rhode Island's new pay equity legislation.
September 24, 2021
Professor Martha Davis joined the fight to preserve access to abortions this week, filing a brief that urges the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade amid conservative momentum to upend the 1973 ruling. The brief was also signed by Northeastern law professor Margaret Woo.