June 06, 2024
“The marriage story is a story of democracy in action,” said Mary Bonauto ’87 in recorded remarks for GLAD’s 20th anniversary celebration of the freedom to marry. Mary argued successfully for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges two decades ago.
June 06, 2024
“We are facing a situation where too many are looking to take away important, hard-won rights and freedoms,” said Governor Maura Healey ’98 during a flag raising ceremony on the Statehouse lawn yesterday.
June 06, 2024
Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand’s research into the racial bias of autocorrect is cited by The Guardian. “We all increasingly rely on smartphones, tablets, word processors, and apps that use autocorrect. Yet autocorrect incorporates a set of defaults – including dictionaries – that help some of its users to communicate seamlessly at the expense of others who cannot.”
June 06, 2024
“I was somewhat surprised to see that the ‘good-faith exception’ article was labeled as Low-importance on WikiProject Law and was previously a stub,” says Charles Choi ’25, who added nearly 3,500 words and 78 references to the good-faith exception article on Wikipedia as part of his course work for Professor Margaret Purdy’s Advanced Legal and Interdisciplinary Research class.
June 06, 2024
This summer, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) will team up with Professor Kris Manjapra, faculty fellow with Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), to lead an eight-week project that seeks to evaluate the ethical concerns raised by the widespread US practice of disposing of executed and deceased prisoners’ remains by donating their bodies to science, medicine or archival purposes.
June 06, 2024
Congratulations to Tara Allen ’98, who has been appointed to serve as a federal public defender for Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire!
June 06, 2024
As part of their spring clinic with the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Heather Atherton ’25, Morgan Heithcock ’25, Brianne Ortiz ’25 and Isabella Ulm ’24 traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, in April to investigate the 1953 killing of Sydney Batiste, who was murdered when he was 17 years old by Sergeant Edward Touzet. The students were accompanied by CRRJ’S Elizabeth Zitrin Fellow and clinical instructor, Attorney Olivia Strange.
June 03, 2024
Professors Daniel Medwed and Jeremy Paul weigh in on the legal debate about the role that televised proceedings play in promoting transparency and educating the public on legal matters.
June 03, 2024
Professor Hayat Bearat, whose latest Drake Law Review article focuses on child marriages in the United States, is cited and quoted extensively by Newsweek.
May 30, 2024
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded 10-week summer fellowships to Mattie Bono ’25, Carolyn Felice ’25 , Jordan Jain ’26 and Rose Mendelsohn ’26.
May 29, 2024
“From a privacy perspective, the data of American individuals is collected, used and abused by a multitude of actors every day all of the time,” Professor Elettra Bietti tells GBH’s Morning Edition. “There is no reason why Americans will or should feel safer in regards to the integrity of their data and of their digital experiences after a TikTok divestment or ban.”
May 29, 2024
“It has been an honor to benefit from steadfast support and a shared sense of mission with AALS, productive collaboration with colleagues at American University and [prior co-host] University of Washington, and inspired leadership from co-editors Margaret Woo and Sonia Rolland,” said long-time editor Professor Jeremy Paul. “It has been a team effort including faculty, librarians, and staff from day one here at Northeastern Law and we are proud to have had the opportunity to be part of the JLE’s longstanding service to our profession.”