January 04, 2020
“What we have now understood in a way that we did not a couple of decades ago is the rampant cover-up,” Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, associate director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project tells the Miami Herald. “The idea of corporate or organizational responsibility is now coming into the courts.”
January 02, 2020
The Kresge Foundation has awarded a renewal grant of $250,000 to Northeastern University School of Law’s NuLawLab to provide ongoing support for Stable Ground, a collaboration among three organizations: NuLawLab, which leads the project and has engaged arts-based disciplines since 2013 to imagine and realize new models of legal empowerment; the City of Boston’s Office of Housing Stability, which works to prevent displacement and promote housing preservation and stabilization; and Violence Transformed, which fosters creative action to overcome violence and extends trauma-informed training to community-based groups.
January 02, 2020
On December 1, 2019, Thaddeus Hoffmeister '98 was unanimously selected by the Wyoming, Ohio, City Council to become the city’s first African American mayor.
January 02, 2020
Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 shares her New Year’s resolution with The Boston Globe: “To get people talking — really talking — about the need for mental health care to be fully integrated into our health care system.”
January 02, 2020
Michele Coleman Mayes will deliver the keynote address at the School of Law's 12th annual Women in the Law Conference on Friday, May 15, 2020. A renowned speaker on the topic of diversity and inclusion, Coleman Mayes is vice president, general counsel and secretary for the New York Public Library. She is a co-author of the book, Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women General Counsel in the Fortune 500. In 2012, Coleman Mayes received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer. In 2014, she became chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession of the American Bar Association.
December 25, 2019
The New York Times looks to Professor Woodrow Hartzog for advice on what to do when someone gives you a surveillance device for a holiday present.
December 23, 2019
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science Claudia Haupt has joined the board of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) at the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), the leading organization in the United States promoting the comparative study of law.
December 23, 2019
Between the grassroots communities at the frontlines of the climate justice fight and the policymakers who determine the rules and regulations that govern clean energy there is often a deep and dark gap in terms of information and evidence. To shine light on that space, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 is joining forces with Shiva Prakash ’16 and Subin DeVar to launch the Initiative for Energy Justice. The Kresge Foundation and Surdna Foundation are providing seed funding to the Initiative, which is sponsored by Northeastern University in conjunction with the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
December 19, 2019
“To me, the real question is, will the country figure out how to confront a polarized situation?," Professor Jeremy Paul tells Northeastern News. “The goal is to get back to a point where you’re operating with the same set of facts and a shared set of goals.”
December 18, 2019
Ryan Rasdall ’20 has been selected to join the executive board of the National Trans Bar Association, an organization dedicated to promoting the advancement of trans and gender nonconforming legal professionals.
December 18, 2019
Professor Leo Beletsky has been selected to receive the Association of American Law Schools’ Law, Medicine and Health Care Community Service Award at the organization’s annual meeting in January. Beletsky’s community engagement spans local, state, national and international service.
December 17, 2019
Treat, don’t imprison addicts, says family of man who died of an overdose. Calling for probation and recovery efforts instead of prosecution for the man’s co-heroin user, the Franklin County, Ohio, family is a case in point that drew the attention of a group of law professors who wrote a letter last month to the Ohio Sentencing Commission in which they called such prosecutions counterproductive in addressing the opioid addiction crisis. The letter was based on a study by the law school’s Health in Justice Action Lab, headed by Professor Leo Beletsky.