May 09, 2024
The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School has named Cole Garvey ’25, Nicholas “Nick” Martin ’25 and Arianna Unger ’26 among its 2024 Fellows.
May 07, 2024
Meghan Leong ’25, a dedicated educator and advocate committed to equity and justice, has been named as the second recipient of the annual Tyler Lawrence Memorial Peacemaker Award.
May 07, 2024
“There needs to be reform in our immigration laws to have the minimum age (of spousal visas) be 18 unless there’s an exception for extreme humanitarian reasons,” Professor Hayat Bearat, interim director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, tells Northeastern Global News.
May 07, 2024
“The relationship between the FDA’s regulatory power and the state’s power to regulate the practice of medicine is a complicated one,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law. “And the FDA’s involvement in mifepristone is much more complex than with most medications.”
May 06, 2024
This year’s Brown Forum for Women in the Law Conference focused on women, media and the law with an eye to upcoming elections on every level and a lens on issues critical to women’s health and to voters.
May 02, 2024
”Former President Trump is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty. But nothing in our Constitution could plausibly block the special counsel from offering such proof before a jury of Trump’s peers,” writes Professor Jeremy Paul in a co-authored article for The Hill.
May 01, 2024
Professor Elettra Bietti joined the Lisa Dent podcast to discuss whether a new law that now requires TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to divest from the popular app or face a country-wide ban is legal.
May 01, 2024
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca admitted in court this week that its COVID-19 vaccine can cause a rare but deadly blood-clotting condition that has become the central focus of a class-action lawsuit worth potentially $125 million.Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), says the admission isn’t especially damning, as the rare condition — called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS — was well-studied prior to the ongoing litigation.
April 30, 2024
Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project (CRRJ) re-examined a military police killing of a Black soldier in 1941. Eight decades later, the U.S. Army corrected the record to reflect that Pvt. Albert King was killed in the line of duty. Read about the lengthy campaign to clear King’s name in NGN Magazine...
April 29, 2024
Mariam Hassan ’26 has received the Fruit of Action Award from Northeastern University’s Center for Intercultural Engagement and Social Justice Resource Center, in recognition of her work this year with Students for Justice in Palestine and Law Students for Justice in Palestine.
April 25, 2024
“It’s a traditional view, maybe it’s a lingering civil libertarian view that the jury punishes someone not for who they are alleged to be, but what they’ve done in this case,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells the Los Angeles Times. “Loosening the rules of evidence could be a slippery slope to an erosion of all our rights.”
April 25, 2024
The granting of visas to three of the migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by the state of Florida is a ”harm reduction provision,” Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law‘s Immigrant Justice Clinic, tells The Boston Globe. “The point of the visa is an apology from the government for failing to keep a migrant safe upon entering the United States.”