May 10, 2023
Henry McDonald ’23 and Alexis Rickmers ’23 have been awarded Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellowships, one of the most prestigious and competitive post-graduate legal fellowships in the country.
May 08, 2023
“Like all systems designed by people, our criminal justice system isn’t perfect, and sometimes, mistakes are made,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells the Omaha Daily Record. “If you think maybe an innocent person is behind bars, it takes dedicated lawyers to reinvestigate the case and figure out whether a mistake might have been made.”
May 08, 2023
“The status quo of rich countries imposing ever increasing monopoly protections to benefit the market control and profiteering of their transnational pharmaceutical giants must end,” writes Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP, in an opinion piece for The Jakarta Post.
May 03, 2023
Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE), has released the latest publication in its series on water and human rights in the U.S., “Data on Tap: Realizing Human Rights through Water Utility Reporting Laws. This briefing paper examines U.S. initiatives to promote water policy transparency through the lens of the human right to information.
May 02, 2023
Siri Nelson ’19, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center and co-chair of this Friday’s Women in the Law conference, talks to Northeastern Global News about her journey and advocacy for whistleblowers.
May 01, 2023
“There should be a lawyer, a legal aid lawyer, in every single clinic in the country. You don’t have to call them a legal aid lawyer. You can call them a problem solver,” says Ellen Lawton '93, a senior fellow at HealthBegins and a national expert in the integration of legal professionals into the healthcare setting to address the social determinants of health,
May 01, 2023
Mass General Brigham cites Professor Leo Beletsky's research in a blog for News Wise.
April 28, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham has won the 2023 Nautilus Award for Journalism and Investigative Reporting for her book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. The Nautilus Awards seek to energize the interconnections among books, authors, publishers and readers, and to be responsive to the world through words.
April 28, 2023
Professor Deborah Ramirez, faculty co-director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law Equity and Race (CLEAR), is featured in the Sidebar podcast with Judge Dan Winslow, talking about rethinking public safety and the role of police.
April 28, 2023
Professor Alexandra J. Roberts comments on the complicated legal questions over Twitter's unsolicited blue checkmarks. “Questions that are common to some—but not all—include whether a check constitutes endorsement of the service, whether it qualifies as advertisement of the service,” said Roberts in Bloomberg Law.
April 26, 2023
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Erin Islo, an expert on civil procedure, arbitration, algorithmic bias and economic justice, will join the Northeastern community on July 1, 2023, as assistant professor of law. Islo’s work utilizes philosophical, legal and empirical methods to explore the rights of consumers and workers and the civil and criminal regulation of the family.
April 25, 2023
Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab has joined partners in Massachusetts to launch MAPLE, a new a new online tool that allows users to draft and submit testimony to state representatives, state senators and the chairs of legislative committees. “We are excited to be a part of this latest civic technology effort and to give Northeastern Law students the opportunity to contribute to building MAPLE,” said Dan Jackson ’97, executive director of NuLawLab.