February 24, 2021
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Future Focused,' Creativity On Demand' and 'Full Speed Ahead. Read it online today!
February 24, 2021
There’s no grand idea that will end poverty,” says Betty Francisco '98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. “But rather a collection of ideas, solutions and players in ecosystems that work cohesively and collaboratively around achieving racial equity outcomes. That’s how we can begin breaking the cycle of poverty.”
February 24, 2021
The Honorable Donald Cabell ’91, US Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, will deliver the keynote address at the 2021 Reunion Celebration on, October 23, as we honor the classes of the 1950s, ’76, ’81, ’86, ’91, ’96, ’01, 2006, ’11 and '16.
February 24, 2021
Technology Law Scholar Evan Jones ’21 has been awarded first place in the Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA) Writing Competition for his paper, “Reckoning Patents as Public Franchise.”
February 19, 2021
Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”
February 16, 2021
We're going to see the same cycle again, Professor Brook Baker '76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells VOA."The rich countries will run to the front of the line for the new variant vaccines. And countries will be left behind again as petri dishes for new variants to develop."
February 16, 2021
The impeachment process is really a unicorn in the legal system, says Professor Daniel Medwed who joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about what legal actions could still be taken against the former president.
February 16, 2021
Former President Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission was situated within a long history of reinterpreting the history of slavery in the US, says Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project.
February 10, 2021
It is the height of naïveté to believe that words in a political speech can be understood in isolation from their context, writes Professor Michael Meltsner in a letter to the New York Times.
February 10, 2021
“There are arguments of market manipulation on both sides, levied against the hedge funds that lost billions of dollars, as well as the retail traders,” says Shaswat K. Das ’94, who served as senior counsel for the SEC in the early 2000s. “In neither case is it abundantly clear or immediately apparent that there was any securities fraud going on.”
February 05, 2021
The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to welcome three new appointees, Catalina Carbonell ’21, Huda Khwaja ’21 and A. Tope Tokan-Lawal LLM ’21 to its prestigious fellowship program.
February 03, 2021
At the 2021 Boston Bar Association (BBA) Beacon Awards, which recognize individuals, organizations and corporations that are creating new paths toward a more inclusive profession, Ralph Martin ’78, senior vice president and general counsel for Northeastern University, received the Voice of Change award given to a “luminary leader in the legal community who has forged a new path and has played an extensive role in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion within the profession.”