February 25, 2024
Restorative justice efforts are happening within the trial courts on the state and federal level, schools, workplaces and programs. To address related issues, the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Judicial Administration Section and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) hosted a two-part program series that included expert observations by Professor Deborah A. Ramirez and Dr. Deborah A. Jackson, faculty co-director and managing director, respectively, of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR).
February 21, 2024
Allyson Crays ’24 has been selected as a 2024 Maeve McKean Women’s Law and Public Policy–O’Neill Institute Fellow.
February 19, 2024
To support less severe criminal sentencing for youth and emerging adults, Professor Aliza Hochman Bloom today filed an amicus brief in the Rhode Island Supreme Court in support of R.I. § 13-8-13(e), also known as Mario’s Law, which retroactively expands parole eligibility for people convicted of crimes committed before the age of twenty-two.
February 19, 2024
“I believed in fighting racism and inequality from my very earliest days,” says Professor Lucy Williams in an interview for the for the Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) Pioneer Histories Project.
February 15, 2024
Professor Shalanda Baker ’05 joined the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast to discuss the historical inequities of energy systems and the Biden administration’s agenda on energy equity and climate justice.
February 15, 2024
In a Human Rights at Home blog, Noelle Gulick ’24 addresses the Mass. SJC’s recent ruling that anyone under the age of 21 cannot be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole: “This decision is a step towards limiting the large number of life without parole sentences that are given in the United States, protecting the human rights of people facing these sentences, and to the United States following international legal norms.”
February 15, 2024
Congratulations to Eduardo Gonzalez ’16, who has been selected to receive the fourth annual Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System! Gonzalez, a program officer for civil justice at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will be presented with the award at the IAALS’ Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner on April 25, 2024.
February 15, 2024
After 17 years at the public defender’s office, Shira Diner ’01 continues a career dedicated to criminal defense litigation as a lecturer and clinical instructor in the Defender Clinic at BU University School of Law.
February 15, 2024
“It that it can be easier for students to learn about the law when there’s a common theme or subject to focus on—especially one as well-known as Taylor Swift,” Professor Alexandra Roberts tells the ABA Journal. ”Classes that expose them to a wide range of issues like licensing materials, contracts, waivers, insurance forms, etc., set them up to think about different careers.”
February 15, 2024
Check out the abstract of Professor Daniel Medwed’s forthcoming Arizona Law Review article, “Secrets of Chambers: The Constitutional Right to Present a Defense at Middle Age,” on the CrimProf blog.
February 15, 2024
“While the trans community and our allies can and should celebrate trans people on the red carpet and on our favorite TV shows, we can’t lose sight of the fact of each bill contributing to a political movement that imagines a world without us,” writes Chase Strangio ’10, deputy director for transgender justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, in an op-ed for The New York Times.
February 15, 2024
“If the Pandemic Accord doesn’t include clear and comprehensive provisions allowing low- and middle–income countries to overcome Big Pharma’s monopoly control over supply, price, and distribution of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics, we’ll see the savage inequity of COVID-19 and AIDS repeated in the next pandemic,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP.