January 19, 2021
Listen back: On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed talks about Biden's stance on the federal death penalty and what it could mean for the Boston Marathon bombing case.
January 19, 2021
When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated tomorrow, he’s likely to dramatically shift the federal government’s approach to capital punishment, say Professors Michael Meltsner and Dan Urman.
January 19, 2021
“The use of civil commitment as a means of addressing the growing burden of overdose deaths, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is both unjust and unsafe," writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored piece for CommonWealth magazine.
January 15, 2021
In an op-ed co-authored for the LA Times, Professor Woodrow Hartzog addresses the need to hold social media companies accountable for their role in fostering political violence.
January 15, 2021
WCVB's Chronicle will air “The Lynching of Henry ‘Peg’ Gilbert" on Channel 5 this Friday, January 22, 2020 at 7:30pm. This documentary, released in October 2020, is a production of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), ABC 7 Chicago and the Northeastern University School of Journalism.
January 15, 2021
In an op-ed co-authored for Teen Vogue, Genia Blaser ’11, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Defense Project, offers actionable advice on advocating for immigrant rights during Joe Biden's administration.
January 15, 2021
Rashida Richardson ’11 will join Northeastern effective July 1, 2021, as Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science within the School of Law and the Department of Political Science within the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
January 15, 2021
The Boston Bar Association (BBA) will honor the COVID Relief Coalition with its 2020 Empowerment Award at the organization’s virtual Beacon Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 28, 2021. Priya Lane ’13 and Russell Paul ’18 have played pivotal roles in the success of the COVID Relief Coalition, which synthesizes the sources of relief that are available to small businesses and nonprofits in the Greater Boston area into a single online resource, and then offers small businesses and nonprofits pro bono legal services.
January 14, 2021
Professor Claudia Haupt has been named the law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law faculty fellow for the current academic year. Haupt’s research is situated at the intersection of the First Amendment, health law and torts in the context of professional speech.
January 14, 2021
Watch: Professor Claudia Haupt talks to 7News Boston about social media and the First Amendment.
January 14, 2021
In Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press, 2021), Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity.
January 13, 2021
Racism is everywhere, including in Massachusetts, and we have an obligation to fight it, writes Janelle Dempsey ’17, a legal fellow at Lawyers for Civil Rights, in a co-authored piece for WBUR's Cognoscenti.