November 26, 2024
Karen Walrond, acclaimed author, attorney, activist and leadership coach, will deliver a special presentation at Northeastern Law’s 17th annual Brown Forum for Women in the Law Conference on May 1, 2025.
November 26, 2024
Professor Alexandra Meise has been appointed Women, Peace and Security Studies Chair at the US Army War College (USAWC) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she is serving her second year on secondment as a visiting professor of national security studies.
November 25, 2024
Northeastern Law’s five centers of excellence recently convened a panel to explore the potential ramifications of the 2024 presidential election.
November 22, 2024
Bradley Whitmarsh, Northeastern Law’s assistant director of computer service ranks as one of the top 100 Scrabble players in the country. Find out how his tech troubleshooting skills translate to the Scrabble board!
November 22, 2024
Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences’ Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, has been awarded a supplemental $300,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WFFK) to continue to support and expand upon Salus Populi, the nation’s first education program to train judges and lawyers about the social determinants of health and their relationship to law.
November 21, 2024
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law Wendy E. Parmet, a leading expert on public health law, health law and disability law, has been recognized as No. 7 among the “10 most-cited health law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023,” according to Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.
November 19, 2024
A 1945 racially motivated killing investigated by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) is the first set of records released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act, which is charged with reviewing government files of unsolved murder cases during the civil rights era and setting a schedule for the release of previously digitally unavailable documents to the public.
November 17, 2024
“We have an administration that promises to deregulate, to be business-friendly, and then we have RFK Jr., who promises to go after fast food,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Washington Post. “Who wins out on this one? McDonald’s or RFK Jr.?”
November 08, 2024
“The Biden administration, and by extension the Harris campaign, fell short of providing a vision for working-class Americans,” says Professor Jeremy Paul.
November 07, 2024
“All it takes is one person in the DOJ or some zealous U.S. attorney to threaten a clinic with criminal sanction under the Comstock Act, and that could potentially cause a tremendous chill among health care providers that are providing abortion,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News.
November 07, 2024
“In a less imperfect world, the essential and long-established right to one’s own body would not have to be decided by majority vote,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells The New Yorker. “Our Constitution should have some floor of liberties in order for all of us to be meaningfully able to participate in democracy. We should still want a federal Constitution that protects our right to reproductive autonomy.”
November 02, 2024
Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) has released a new report on the multifaceted challenges surrounding Black land loss, including its impact on building generational wealth within Black communities.