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.
November 01, 2024
“The bottom line: expect to see recounts,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells Northeastern Global News.
November 01, 2024
Northeastern Law’s new Center for Global Law and Justice celebrated its official launch on October 24. “This is going to be an opportunity for leadership with respect to human rights advocacy and research,” said Dean James Hackney in his opening remarks. “The center will collaborate with institutions of all kinds around the world while creating experiential opportunities for Northeastern students.”
October 30, 2024
Professor Daniel Medwed has co-authored an amicus brief in a Pennsylvania Supreme Court death penalty case in which the state attorney general has intervened in an attempt to stop the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office from conceding error in the trial of Lavar Brown, who was convicted of a 2003 murder.