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.”
April 25, 2024
Martín Espada ’85 will be honored with a 2024 Mass Humanities Governor’s Award, which recognizes individuals whose public actions enhance civic life in the commonwealth through a deep appreciation of the humanities. Espada has been singled out for his “work as a poet, editor and essayist with a focus on using writing and storytelling to address pressing issues and reclaim historical narratives, including those of the Puerto Rican community in Massachusetts.”
April 25, 2024
Professor Elettra Bietti comments on the TikTok ban bill for the Associated Press: “The question is, ‘Why ban TikTok and not the activities and the surveillance carried out by other companies in the United States?’”
April 24, 2024
The Honorable William “Mo” Cowan will deliver Northeastern University School of Law’s commencement address on Friday, May 10, 2024.
April 23, 2024
Thanks to the generosity of our community, Northeastern Law is thrilled to announce that the school has reached $1 million in fundraising with the “A Million Thanks for Dan Givelber” campaign honoring the late Dan Givelber, a beloved former dean and faculty member who died on June, 25 , 2023.