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.
April 25, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham has won the 2023 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. The Hillman Prizes strive to recognize discernment of a significant news story, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skill in relating the story and the impact of the coverage.
April 25, 2023
Professor Rashida Richardson discusses the limitations of AI and data on access to justice. "Fundamentally, problems of access to justice are about deeper structural inequities, not access to technology," said Richardson in this Reuters article.
April 24, 2023
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Aliza Hochman Bloom, who studies race in the Fourth Amendment and criminal sentencing reforms, will join the Northeastern community on July 1, 2023, as assistant professor of law. Hochman Bloom is currently a faculty fellow at New England Law | Boston, where she teaches criminal law, criminal advocacy and legal ethics. She was previously a visiting scholar at Boston University School of Law, supervising students in the criminal law clinic.
April 24, 2023
Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Katherine (Katie) Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, with a particular concentration on fertility care and reproductive technologies, will join the Northeastern community on July 1, 2023, as assistant professor of law and health sciences. Kraschel is currently a lecturer in law and the executive director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, where she co-teaches the Reproductive Rights and Justice Project Clinic.
April 24, 2023
Professor Margaret Burnham has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for books published in 2022. Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners was among 12 outstanding books recognized for literary excellence and the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.
April 23, 2023
Professor Alexandra J. Roberts comments on the legal questions concerning Twitter's paid subscription service - Twitter Blue - which verified the accounts of deceased celebrities, in The Washington Post.
April 22, 2023
Professor Wendy Parmet discusses the Supreme Court's decision to block a Texas judge's restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone from taking effect. “What they’re saying is, we’re not going to take this drug off the market” at least until hearing the case on the merits, Parmet said in Bloomberg Law.
April 22, 2023
In celebration of Earth Day 2023, the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy published this conversation with Professor Martha Davis on Environmental Human Rights and Water Security. "I would urge that citizens, non profits, and regional organizations focus on establishing legal structures that will shore up equality protections in the environmental arena," said Davis.