April 03, 2024
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, says the Supreme Court’s decision on access to the mifepristone abortion pill could have significant effects on reproductive health and the pharmaceutical industry.
April 02, 2024
“The real crisis at the border is the fact that people’s access to official border crossing points has been blocked,” Professor Rachel Rosenbloom tells Northeastern Global News.
April 02, 2024
Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) is pleased to announce that Michel-Ange Siaba will be joining CJTF’s Jail-to-Jobs initiative as an Experiential Summer Scholar.
April 01, 2024
On March 12, 2024, Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) hosted Professor Deleso Alford, Rachel Emanuel Endowed Professor at the Southern University Law Center, for a conversation about the legacy of Henrietta Lacks.
March 28, 2024
Stephen Kohn ’84 has been named to Forbes’inaugural list of America’s Top 200 Lawyers, in recognition of his impact and achievements in whistleblower advocacy! A partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, Kohn is also an award-winning author, founder of the National Whistleblower Center and an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern Law.
March 26, 2024
Following almost a decade of investigation and advocacy by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and pro bono lawyers at Morgan Lewis, Private Albert King received a full military service last Sunday. “His name was stained, and we needed to cleanse that stain,” Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, CRRJ’s associate director, told The New York Times.
March 25, 2024
Mari Newman ’97, a Colorado-based civil rights and employment lawyer who has dedicated her entire career to advocating on behalf of the underdog and disenfranchised, is profiled by Denver Westword.
March 24, 2024
Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, joined WBUR’s Radio Boston to discuss the town of Brookline’s first-in-the-nation tobacco ban and whether other municipalities may follow suit.
March 24, 2024
Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP, says the government has a role to play in solving the shortage of the only medication that can treat syphilis in pregnant people.
March 22, 2024
Professor Daniel Medwed comments for The Boston Globe on the recent federal appeal court ruling in the Tsarnaev case: “Imposing the ultimate punishment, death, warrants the ultimate process. And given the significant lingering questions about jury selection in the original trial, this is a just result.”
March 21, 2024
Professor Jeremy Paul and his son, Jason Paul, an attorney and author of Trench Warfare Politics in the Tinder Era, have co-authored an op-ed for The Hill.
March 20, 2024
“While preemption law varies from state to state and even law to law, the Brookline innovation is one that may inspire communities to devise new ways to overcome state preemption in other areas that threaten public health and involve age limits on purchases, such as firearm sales,” writes Professor Martha Davis in her latest piece for the Brennan Center's State Court Report.