June 04, 2020
Professor Deborah Ramirez joins the PowerPLAY podcast to make the case for mandatory professional liability insurance for police officers.
June 04, 2020
“I think what the young people who are in the streets today are saying is, it’s not the world we want to live in. We want to create our own world. We want to create a world that is responsive to our understandings of what it means to be human,” says Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ). “And we want a justice system.”
June 02, 2020
Selected from 446 applications, Anna Michel ’21 and Lindsey Shonehard ’22 are two of 35 law students who will serve in the 2020 class of Rural Summer Legal Corps, an initiative funded by Equal Justice Works and the Legal Services Corporation.
June 02, 2020
“The protests are about the lingering and still accumulating costs of American racial ideology and the harms ensuing from failure to acknowledge the wrongs, to “call their names”," writes Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), in her latest blog.
May 30, 2020
In the middle of the night I was transfixed by the fires ablaze in Minneapolis. The next morning, I awoke to the shock of a CNN reporter of color being arrested, for no articulated rationale. Across the nation, protests are releasing the pain of witnessing racial atrocities—all of this in the midst of a pandemic.
May 29, 2020
“The intervention by the federal government in private tort law of states would be extremely problematic,” Professor Emily Spieler tells The Washington Post. “Tort law is a matter of states.”
May 28, 2020
Stefanie (Stevie) Leahy has been appointed an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University School of Law, effective July 1, 2020. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she was a visiting assistant professor in the school’s Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program, supervising two social justice projects with LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
May 28, 2020
Blaine Saito, an expert in the field of taxation, has been appointed an assistant professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, effective July 1, 2020.
May 28, 2020
In an op-ed co-authored for CommonWealth, Professor Carol Steinberg writes about the need for more adaptable housing highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis.
May 28, 2020
Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce the hiring of four exceptional faculty members: Ari Ezra Waldman, Blaine Saito, L. Danielle Tully and Stephanie (Stevie) Leahy.
May 26, 2020
Paid part-time positions (20 hours per week) available for up to four NUSL current students or 2020 graduates to do research mapping legal and other structural determinants of inequality in COVID workplace hotspots.
May 26, 2020
How does the patent process work for vaccines in the US, and how does the ongoing global health crisis affect the law? On WGBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed gives a breakdown of the basic intellectual property law related to developing a vaccine for COVID-19.