July 31, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham will be honored with a 2023 Mass Humanities Governor’s Award, which recognizes individuals whose public actions enhance civic life in the commonwealth through a deep appreciation of the humanities. Burnham has been singled out for her “dedication to exploring history, illuminating truth and confronting injustice in order to protect civil and human rights locally, nationally and internationally.”
July 31, 2023
Professor Margo Lindauer talks to Northeastern Global Newsabout the potential lasting impact of Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault case.
July 28, 2023
In an interview with the Boston Review, Professor Margaret Burnham discusses her book, By Hands Now Known, and the ways in which Black people challenged and documented racist violence during the Jim Crow era.
July 28, 2023
“We allow the [medical] profession to police themselves,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post. “And when they fail to do that, even in the most egregious cases, what they are abetting is the erosion of trust and respect for doctors.”
July 28, 2023
In a special episode of the Power at Work blogcast, released to honor National Whistleblower Day, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris speaks with Siri Nelson ’19 and Stephen Kohn ’84, the executive director and the founding director of the National Whistleblower Center, respectively.
July 28, 2023
“There is much talk lately about how some discussions in US classrooms should be restricted… Freedom requires more, not less, opportunities for people to have open conversations with those who may be different from themselves,” writes Professor Carol Steinberg ’80, attorney and disability activist, in a Boston Globe op-ed.
July 27, 2023
”Given the large user base on Twitter and the number of people following and reporting on this rebrand, I expect it wouldn’t take very long to establish that the new ‘X’ functions as a trademark and consumers associate it with Twitter’s services or brand,” Professor Alex Roberts tells The Verge.
July 26, 2023
Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to welcome an exceptional group of new faculty to our community.
July 26, 2023
It is possible to trademark a single letter, but doing so will make it harder for Musk’s company to sue for infringement or to avoid lawsuits from other companies that use X, Professor Alexandra Roberts tells NBC News.
July 25, 2023
Professor Bearat joins Northeastern University Law School as a visiting associate professor and director of the Domestic Violence Institute.
July 25, 2023
Naomi Oberman-Breindel has joined Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context program as a Social Justice Teaching Fellow. Oberman-Breindel previously served for eight years as a public defender in New York City criminal courts.
July 25, 2023
Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) Probate and Family Diversity Fellowship program has announced that Shreya Vijay ’23, Jennifer Gonzalez ’24 and Pavithra Venkataraman ’25 will receive fellowships to work with judges of the Massachusetts Suffolk County Probate and Family Court, as well as observe the work of the Suffolk County Juvenile Court and the Administrative Office of the Probate and Family Court.