April 09, 2021
Featuring the work of Northeastern University School of Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), "The Trouble I've Seen" follows the investigations of three harrowing civil rights cold cases. Founded by Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ takes on cases that both horrify us and beg us to correct the record, to search for reconciliation and remediation for families and communities that even decades later shudder in the shadows of bigotry and injustice. "The Trouble I've Seen" is narrated by Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP.
April 09, 2021
Watch: Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of NUSL's Criminal Justice Task Force and a long-time advocate for policy changes in the criminal justice system, contributes to an ABC News Special Report on the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. “This trial is really about policing in America and police accountability,” she says.
April 07, 2021
“To rally around Chauvin and say, ‘This is policing as normal, this is acceptable practice,’ would risk greater harm to the reputation of the police than basically just coming forward and saying, ‘This is not who we are, and this is not what we do,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells VICE News. “I think all of them are aligned with coming forward and saying Chauvin is outside of our group: that he is a bad apple but we are a good tree.”
April 06, 2021
Professor Jared Nicholson has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development, a publication of the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
April 02, 2021
Professor Stephanie Hartung has been appointed to the affiliate program at Boston UniverStephanie Hartungsity's Center for Antiracist Research. Launched in 2020, this interdisciplinary network of faculty and graduate students from Boston University (BU) and colleges and universities around New England bring their expertise and unique disciplinary perspectives towards the goal of investigating and dismantling racism at multiple levels, from the structural to the interpersonal.
April 02, 2021
Alvin Carter III ’18, an associate in Rudick Brown’s corporate practice group, is featured as a Rising Star in the Boston Bar Association’s Spotlight Series.
April 01, 2021
"The defense counsel may not be aware of the racial overtones in his arguments, but his words paint Williams as someone whose anger overpowered and colored his perception of the event," Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of Northeastern Law's Criminal Justice Task Force, tells The Washington Post.
April 01, 2021
Nina Totenberg, NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent, has been confirmed as a guest speaker at the 13th annual Women in the Law Conference (#WIL2021), to be held virtually on Friday, May 21. Totenberg will join Mielle Marquis, director of external affairs, to talk about her close friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, her role as a trailblazer in journalism and much more.
March 31, 2021
"This pandemic won’t end if policy solutions prioritize keeping Big Pharma happy by pursuing one-sided compromise while millions of people are getting sick and dying due to lack of access to life-saving vaccines," writes Professor Brook Baker '76 in his latest Health GAP blog.
March 31, 2021
Nima Eshghi ’96, assistant dean of Northeastern Law’s Center for Co-op and Career Development, was honored by GBH/Get Konnected as one of Boston’s 50 Most Influential People of Color in Higher Educations at a virtual celebration on March 30. Founded as a social impact venture, the mission of Get Konnected is to curate meaningful business and social connections, enrich professional development, facilitate business and career opportunities, and forge positive cross-cultural relationships.
March 31, 2021
Professor Martha Davis, faculty director for Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the NuLawLab, is a co-editor of the newly published Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
March 22, 2021
“This first, welcome rhetorical step by Vice President Biden should be followed by a concrete plan to dismantle the misguided, dangerous current policy of ‘America first, everyone else to the back of the queue,’” writes Professor Brook Baker in his latest blog for Health GAP.