July 23, 2020
Northeastern University is supporting a multi-state lawsuit, filed by 18 attorneys generals and led by Maura Healey '98 of Massachusetts, against a new federal rule that would bar international students from remaining in the United States if they take classes exclusively online this fall.
July 23, 2020
Hakeem Muhammad ’20 has been named as one of three winners of the Law School Admission Council’s nationwide biennial writing competition, which is designed to advance the dialogue on diversity, equity and inclusion in legal education and the profession, for his essay, “Why a Diverse Bar is Paramount to Protecting the Constitution.”
July 23, 2020
“The civil rights movement sought to democratize America. Now we must finish the work of that great social movement and democratize policing,” writes Melissa Nobles, dean of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and a close collaborator of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ).
July 23, 2020
The Washington Post reports on the case of Thomas Finch, who was 28 when he was killed by an Atlanta police officer in 1936: "The circumstances of Finch’s lynching — one of more than 6,500 between 1865 and 1950 — were brought to light in 2017 by Carissa Aranda, a civil rights attorney in western Massachusetts who at the time was a Northeastern University law school student investigating cold cases for the school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project."
July 23, 2020
Congratulations to Avana Anderson '15, Ivria Glass Fried '13, Valerie Jackson '13, Eva Jellison '13, Desiree Murphy '13 and Alicia Selman '17, who are to be honored as Up & Coming Lawyers by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly at its virtual 2020 Excellence in the Law event this Wednesday!
July 23, 2020
Supervised by Professor Jared Nicholson, students at Northeastern Law’s Community Business Clinic are helping small business owners in disadvantaged communities navigate the complex legal and regulatory policies to operate responsibly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 23, 2020
Professor Deborah Ramirez, Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins '97 and Willie Bodrick II ’20, senior advisor to US Senator Ed Markey and associate pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston, spoke about police accountability and reform at virtual panel on Wednesday, July 22.
July 22, 2020
In conjunction with her participation in Professor Martha Davis’s Human Rights in the United States seminar, Roshni Patel ’20 is the lead author of a new chapter on the water and human rights, supplementing the 2014 edition of Human Rights in the US: A Handbook for Legal Aid Attorneys.
July 14, 2020
Professor Ari Ezra Waldman has been named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. A leading authority on law, technology and society, Waldman directs the School of Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC).
July 08, 2020
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced a $25,000 investment to support First Amendment research by Professor Ari Waldman.
July 01, 2020
Listen back: Professor Margaret Burhman joined Foreign Policy’s Don’t Touch Your Face podcast to discuss the relationship between the COVID19 pandemic and protests in the United States and around the world.
July 01, 2020
In a co-authored essay for the Brookings Institute, Professor Woodrow Hartzog outlines the dangers of deferring to tech firms to respond to COVID-19.