April 30, 2021
Professor Woodrow Hartzog, an internationally recognized expert in the area of privacy, media and robotics law, has been appointed to a special legislative Commission on Government Use of Facial Recognition Technology.
April 30, 2021
Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 is "among the handful of progressive DA’s out there who are bucking the law-and-order template for chief prosecutors,” says Professor Daniel Medwed.
April 29, 2021
Northeastern University School of Law will hold commencement exercises for the Class of 2021 on Friday, May 14, at 1 pm at Northeastern University’s Parsons Field in Brookline, Massachusetts. Nabiha Syed, president of The Markup, a new online publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact society, will deliver the commencement address.
April 27, 2021
Professor Woodrow Hartzog has been selected to receive Northeastern University's Research and Creative Activity Award in recognition of the prolific body of work he produced in 2020, including several law review articles and a co-authored book titled Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It.
April 26, 2021
“With these other three officers, I think the Blue Wall might be shaky, but I don’t know if it’ll crumble,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells Vice.
April 26, 2021
The President only has the power to pause the federal death penalty, Professor Daniel Medwed tells CNN. "He can't do much about the state death row cases, that's up to the governors and legislators -- but he could sweep death row clean by commuting all sentences from death to life without the possibility of parole."
April 23, 2021
“This was a moment that affirms the humanity of Black people,” Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) tells Northeastern News. “The verdict restores a kind of moral balance and it also is going to inform the conversations that we are now engaged in nationally around policing: What kind of policing do we want in our country? How can we create a system where Black people are not both over-policed and under-protected, as is true of the current system?”
April 21, 2021
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Washington Post that the effort to separate Chauvin from police was “a wise choice” to appeal to any jurors who might be uneasy with some of the sharpest criticisms of police and calls to reform or defund them.
April 20, 2021
“The stakes are high right now,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Northeastern News. “We want a vaccine that is safe and we want to save lives, but we don’t want to give a vaccine to subpopulations that may be particularly vulnerable to it if we have other choices for them.”
April 20, 2021
Public health has, to some extent, become “yet another of America’s endless political battlegrounds,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Undark. “We fight, politically, everything from Dr. Seuss to Covid. What has happened is that in many states, as a result of this, legislatures are rushing to consider and enact measures to reduce the governor’s authority.”
April 19, 2021
Northeastern University School of Law is ranked No. 5 for health care law in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 rankings, released today. The law school was previously ranked No. 11 in the 2021 rankings.
April 16, 2021
Khalafalla Osman ’21 has been named to the Class of 2021 Justice Fellows by the Immigrant Justice Corp (IJC). Each year, IJC awards Justice Fellowships to recent law graduates and law clerks from around the country – individuals with tremendous talent, promise and a demonstrated commitment to providing legal services for low income people and for immigrants.