June 01, 2021
The Humanities Center at Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities has selected professors Libby Adler and Kara Swanson as 2021-2022 “Reckoning” Fellows — a multidisciplinary group of Northeastern faculty and PhD candidates who are exploring “reckonings” that involve an intersectional, multidimensional process of truth-telling and accountability around all forms of systemic oppression, from the intimate and familial, to the social and political, to the planetary and cosmic.
May 28, 2021
"Here’s an organization that’s committed to protecting the public but what they actually did is protect someone who had multiple allegations of severe domestic violence from multiple victims. As someone who’s done this work, I’m not surprised and I’m horrified,” Professor Margo Lindauer ‘07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute tells The Boston Globe.
May 26, 2021
Listen back: In an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio's "The Morning Show," Professor Deborah Ramirez explains how police liability insurance could help safeguard taxpayers and pull back some power from police unions that she said is leveraged to protect bad police officers.
May 25, 2021
“COVID-19 has had a much bigger footprint than we have estimated so far,” says Professor Brook Baker ‘76.
May 25, 2021
“The solution to the epidemic of police violence is not necessarily more or less policing, but better policing,” write Professors Daniel Medwed and Margaret Woo in a co-authored op-ed for GBH.
May 25, 2021
Tune in to Texas Public Radio's The Source today at 1PM ET to hear Professor Aziza Ahmed weigh in on Texas’ new abortion restrictions.
May 21, 2021
Join us today for the 13th annual Women in the Law conference! The stellar speaker lineup features Nina Totenberg, NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent, who will join Mielle Marquis, director of external affairs, to talk about her close friendship with RBG, her role as a trailblazer in journalism and much more; Michele Coleman Mayes, vice president, general counsel and secretary of the New York Public Library, who will be interviewed by the Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76; and Shirley Leung, columnist and associate editor at The Boston Globe, who will deliver a special presentation. Topical panels and breakouts and a mindfulness exercise led by mindfulness consultant Brenda Fingold will further help to bring this year's theme, All In: Reimagining Inclusive Workplaces, to life.
May 20, 2021
By agreeing to hear an abortion case out of Mississippi that the state’s lower courts ruled was plainly unconstitutional under the landmark Roe v. Wade, the justices indicated that the nation’s highest court may seek to change the abortion standard, say Professors Aziza Ahmed and Dan Urman.
May 20, 2021
In an interview with MIT Sloan, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, the new (and first-ever) deputy director of energy justice at the US Department of Energy, talks about how she develops and works with big ideas.
May 19, 2021
Professor Kara W. Swanson, an expert in intellectual property law, gender and sexuality, the history of science, medicine, and technology and legal history, has been selected for a Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Award.
May 18, 2021
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Melvin J. Kelley IV will join the university faculty effective July 1, 2021, as Associate Professor of Law and Business within the School of Law and the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
May 18, 2021
“You are Northeastern University School of Law graduates,” Dean James Hackney told the class of 2021 at their commencement ceremony on Friday, May 14. “There is no doubt in my mind that you will reach heights that make our world a better place.”