September 20, 2020
Professor Michael Meltsner was in the room when, in 1972, faculty members at Columbia Law voted to hire Ginsburg as the school’s first female tenure-track professor. In a piece for the Human Rights at Home Blog, he recounts what happened.
September 20, 2020
Chase Strangio ’10, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, has been named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020 by TIME magazine.
September 15, 2020
Professor Daniel Medwed reflects on Chief Justice Gants' impact on the Commonwealth: "He was truly the most honorable justice I've ever met."
September 14, 2020
If Washington is to address mass incarceration, freeing the innocent is a good place to start, writes Professor Daniel Medwed in a co-authored op-ed for The Everett Herald.
September 14, 2020
With mandatory or coerced treatment, you actually have something that’s neither ethical nor effective,” Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern Law's Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Forbes.
September 14, 2020
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Where to Now?,’ “No Time to Kill’ and ‘Business as Unusual.” Read it online today!
September 14, 2020
Professor Wendy E. Parmet and Faith Khalik hosted a virtual community conversation titled, "Legal and Policy Assessment of COVID-19," on Monday, September 14, 2020.
September 06, 2020
“To substantially shift the experiences of people who use drugs in their communities, decriminalization must be coupled with meaningful police reform and efforts to build-up systems of support and care,” says Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab
September 06, 2020
“Voter ID laws, voter purges and poll closures have long been used as strategies to alter elections,” writes Rahsaan Hall ’98, director of the racial justice program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, in a co-authored piece for WBUR's Cognoscenti. “COVID-19 has just made it a little easier.”
September 06, 2020
Hartzog joins global advocates fighting biometric recognition in an essay penned for a new compendium compiled by NYU Law’s AI Now Institute.
September 06, 2020
In a co-authored op-ed for The Boston Globe, Professor Woodrow Hartzog argues that Clearview AI, a facial recognition software company, is wrongfully trying to use the First Amendment to ensure a freedom to surveil at will.
August 27, 2020
“Attacks on a victim’s actions and background can impact both the court of public opinion and the ensuing criminal court actions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells PolitiFact.