August 05, 2021
Listen back: NuLawLab's Dan Jackson '97 and Jules Rochielle Sievert joined the Reimagining Justice podcast to share their insights on the importance of creativity, community and fun in developing legal inventors of the future!
August 05, 2021
Consumers’ Research provides a great overview of Professor Ari Ezra Waldman's Washington University Law Review paper, "Privacy Law's False Promise."
August 05, 2021
“I don’t think that Cuomo thought he was doing anything wrong, which is problematic,” Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells news@Northeastern. “That doesn’t mitigate the harm or the fact that he was doing something wrong and that no one intervened.”
August 04, 2021
CNN Politics asks: "Is it legal to mandate Covid vaccines?" Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, offers expert insights.
August 03, 2021
Commenting for Utah Political Underground, Professor Daniel Medwed says he’s troubled about the possibility of selective prosecution in the case of a Utah woman who has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly smirking at a sheriff's deputy and stomping on a pro-police sign. “Of all the potential hate crimes to investigate and prosecute in the state of Utah, why this one?” he asks.
July 30, 2021
President Biden's budget proposal, which reverses a decades-long ban on abortion funding, is a "significant win for protecting abortion rights," writes Mackenzie Darling '22 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
July 30, 2021
Watch video: Professor Brook Baker appeared on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” to make the case for a vaccine patent waiver to boost production of the COVID vaccination.
July 29, 2021
In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."
July 29, 2021
"Over 45 years, his advice to Alaskans has changed with the transformation of the planet." Jeff Lowenfels ’75, retired lawyer, best-selling author and gardening columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, is profiled by The New York Times Magazine!
July 29, 2021
Northeastern Law's Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program is delighted to welcome four new faculty members. Combining a wealth of both teaching and social justice experience, the group adds considerable strength to the innovative LLSC program, which teaches legal skills through a social justice lawyering lens, ensuring that graduates are prepared to use the law to address systemic oppression.
July 26, 2021
Congratulations to Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 on her historic nomination to serve as the next US Attorney for Massachusetts!
July 23, 2021
“There’s an entire multi-hundred billion dollar industry of companies you’ve never heard of,” Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), tells Slate. “Their business model is collecting info from all corners of the internet and selling it to people so they can make general conclusions about a population and advertise to it. They say that information is non-identifiable. This is another example of how it’s an utter lie.”