April 02, 2026
Professor Rachel Rosenbloom tells The Christian Science Monitor that the Trump administration “is trying to characterize that [Wong] decision as more narrow than it was.” Instead, she says, the Wong decision “establishes a very broad rule of birthright citizenship.” Rosenbloom, an immigration law and policy expert, co-authored two amicus briefs in Trump v. Barbara.
April 01, 2026
A dissenting opinion filed by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Chiles v. Salazar, No. 24–539, heavily cites a foundational Yale Law Journal article, “Professional Speech,” by Professor Claudia Haupt.
March 30, 2026
Commenting for Axios, Professor Alexandra Roberts, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity, weighs in on the trademark implications of the bill Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed this week to rename Palm Beach International Airport after President Trump.
March 30, 2026
In a piece for the State Court Report , Professor Martha Davis examines the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's landmark ruling striking down mandatory life-without-parole sentences for felony murder: “The groundbreaking decision is notable for many reasons, including the ways that international law was baked into the arguments and the justices’ opinions.”
March 27, 2026
Cheryl I. Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA Law, delivered the second annual Hope Lewis Distinguished lecture on March 23, 2026. Her keynote was titled, “Meeting the Moment: 25 Years of Critical Race Studies.”
March 27, 2026
“(Elon Musk) is free to make gifts to the federal government, but he would have no control over how the money is spent,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Northeastern Global News. “It would be an end run around Congress’ power of the purse if we treated such private contributions as a slush fund under presidential control.”
March 27, 2026
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, served as the keynote speaker at Saint Louis University School of Law’s 38th Annual Health Law Symposium on March 27.
March 25, 2026
Professors David Simon and Hooman Noorchashm have filed a citizen petition with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requesting urgent action regarding a recently cleared heart device called enVast.
March 24, 2026
In January, a group of Northeastern Law students participated in a powerful civil rights immersion trip to the Deep South led by federal judges from Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
March 19, 2026
A federal judge has issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking RFK Jr.’s changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, with Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law among those filing briefs challenging the scientific validity of the assessment HHS relied upon to justify the alterations.
March 19, 2026
“Attacks on civilian infrastructure can be considered a violation of international law under the terms of the Geneva Conventions, a set of treaties and protocols that form the basis of international humanitarian law,” Professor Zinaida Miller tells Northeastern Global News.
March 19, 2026
“The confluence of my family’s story and the circumstances of the first Trump administration [pushed] me into this field where I’ve enjoyed being a service provider,” Julian Zuzarte ’24, an attorney at the Rian Immigrant Center in Boston, tells The Hawk, Saint Joseph's University’s student newspaper.