April 06, 2023
Elyse Cherry ’83, CEO of BlueHub Capital, will receive the Boston Business Journal’s 2023 LGBT Trailblazer Award at an event in May. She is a member of the boards of Wellesley College and Eastern Bank, and chair of the board of the Forsyth Institute. She is also on the board of directors of The Boston Foundation, where she co-chairs the Advisory Committee for The Equality Fund — a fund supporting Greater Boston nonprofits that strengthen the LGBTQ community.
April 06, 2023
US District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton ’77 will retire from the District of Connecticut bench in October 2023. A role model and co-op employer for many in the Northeastern Law community, Arterton was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1995.
April 06, 2023
Jamie Sgarro ’25 runs a nonprofit, InReach, to help LGBTQ+ community members find needed resources while attending law school to further his work in the trans rights movement and help protect trans justice. “I think the law, if put in the right hands, has enormous power to protect vulnerable people,” Sgarro says in Northeastern Global News.
April 04, 2023
“I hope that this book helps to reflect that as LGBTQIA+ people, and as women, and as people of color, we must have a society where we can control our bodies, and who we love,” says Sunu Chandy ’98 in this PEN Ten interview about My Dear Comrades, her award-winning poetry collection. Chandy discusses the poetics and politics of intersectionality, how her poetry and legal arguments interact, and the joy of others finding solidarity in her writing.
April 04, 2023
Professor Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute, comments on the likelihood of Congress adopting the birthdate ban on purchasing cigarettes, “Individual responsibility, individualism, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, these are certainly baked into the American culture and politics,” he says in The Guardian, “and the most important thing that’s baked into American politics is the influence of money.”
April 04, 2023
Professor Daniel Medwed comments on prosecutions of business falsification crimes as both felonies and misdemeanors in the Trump case, “It is also not unprecedented to tie this type of charge to an alleged campaign finance crime,” he said in the Boston Globe.
April 03, 2023
Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, associate director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Project, comments on how Trump could delay legal proceedings in his case. “There is no way Trump isn’t going to push and pull everything he can at that indictment and Alvin Bragg in order to smear it—and him—but also to delay proceedings,” Zoltek-Jick says in Northeastern Global News, “The time between an indictment of any sort and a trial—there’s a long way between here and there.”
April 03, 2023
Professor Brook Baker comments on the pharmaceutical industry's arbitrary approach to provide medicines to poor and middle-income countries, because it can lead to higher prices and fails to address calls for technology transfers. “What people have been asking for is technology sharing and licensing rights to expand manufacturing capacity” said Baker in STAT News, “This (proposal) is pretty much leaving company intellectual property alone and relying on voluntary measures.”
April 03, 2023
Kaila D. Clark ’20 has been selected by the National LGBTQ+ Bar for its 40 Under 40 honor roll of attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their field and have demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBTQ+ equality. An associate at ArentFox Schiff, Kaila serves as co-chair of the firm’s LGBTQ+ inclusion group, OutFox.
April 02, 2023
Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) in Boston have filed a petition for executive clemency on behalf of Joe James, an early 20th-century Black man convicted by a racially charged white jury, according to the Associated Press.
March 31, 2023
“It’s another example of courts not caring about the impact of their decisions on the health of Americans,” said Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, over a federal judge’s decision to strike down requirements in the Affordable Care Act, in Bloomberg Law. The decision could reduce access to life-saving preventative treatments for low-income Americans.
March 29, 2023
Professor Michael Meltsner discussed the death penalty in America at a Harvard Law School library panel. “People’s fundamental constitutional and human rights, including human dignity, are inalienable, should not depend on public opinion polls,” Meltsner said. “That’s why death penalty can and should be abolished irrespective of public opinion.”