September 24, 2021
In Industry Unbound, Professor Ari Ezra Waldman exposes exactly how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy, undermine privacy law and subjugate us all in the process.
September 22, 2021
Today, Northeastern University School of Law launches a new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), which will bring together the school’s pioneering programs and faculty— long engaged in theoretical and translational research, innovative pedagogy and collaborations with external communities — to address today’s challenges and provide tomorrow’s solutions for the nation’s most complex social challenges.
September 21, 2021
Sarah Peck ’96, director of #UnitedOnGuns, a nonpartisan initiative of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, recently collaborated with US mayors who presided over large-scale shooting incidents to produce what is believed to be the first handbook for municipal leaders spelling out what they need to do in the critical hours after a mass shooting.
September 20, 2021
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce the first recipients of the Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Fellowship, which honors the legacy of the late Massachusetts chief justice by continuing his commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion in the judiciary and court systems.
September 17, 2021
“A presidential order for states to require vaccinations on their own would likely have been found unconstitutional,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tellsPolitiFact.
September 17, 2021
The presidential COVID-19 vaccination directives would have been a “slam dunk” if they were issued a year ago, says Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law. But the way the Supreme Court and other courts have ruled against federal mandates lately, “I’m not quite so sure,” she adds.
September 14, 2021
“[Companies] saying they don’t sell data to third parties is like a yogurt company saying they’re gluten-free…. It’s a misdirection,” Professor Arie Ezra Waldman, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity tells The Markup.
September 14, 2021
Listen back: Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed
joined GBH's Morning Edition to discuss cases before the Mass. SJC this month.
September 09, 2021
Listen back: Professor Beth Noveck, director of the Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation, discusses her new book, Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.
September 09, 2021
“The continual emergence of variants of the virus elevates the threat that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to devastate the globe, and raises the sense of urgency to shrink the sizes of unvaccinated communities around the world,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP.
September 08, 2021
Northeastern University School of Law has received a gift of $500,000 from Professor Emerita Judith Olans Brown and her husband, Jim Brown, to establish the Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law.
September 08, 2021
“Time and connection have brought us to a moment where we have a real opportunity to pass the Equality Act to update our civil rights laws for the modern era,” writes Mary Bonauto ’87, civil rights project director at GLAD, in an op-ed for USA Today.