February 07, 2023
Northeastern Law is a top 10 law school for women, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company recently named the school to its list of Best Law Schools for 2023. Northeastern is ranked No. 10 for Greatest Resources for Women based on the percent of the student body who are women and student answers to a survey question on whether all students are afforded equal treatment by students and faculty regardless of their gender.
February 06, 2023
To honor the legacy of the late Massachusetts Chief Justice Ralph Gants, diverse students across the commonwealth now have access to stipends for co-ops or internships with state judges. The first two students awarded Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Judicial Scholarships are Northeastern Law students Nadia Eldemery ’24, who will intern with First Justice Helen Brown Bryant in Suffolk County Juvenile Court, and Hui Chen ’23, who will intern with Justice Elspeth Cypher at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
February 06, 2023
Congratulations to US District Court Judge Victoria Roberts ’76, who retires from the bench in September. The only Black woman to serve as president of the Michigan Bar Association, she leaves behind a legacy of advocacy for equality, justice and truth, according to the Detroit Free Press.
February 03, 2023
“The questions [PEIA faces] are the same, I think as what we faced 30 years ago, but the magnitude of them may be worse,” said Emily Spieler, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a founding member of PEIA’s ( Public Employees Insurance Agency) Finance Board in the 1990s.
February 03, 2023
Solène Kerisit, a Master’s Degree student at Sciences Po Law School, co-wrote an article with Professor Martha Davis in the Northeastern University Law Review while working at Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE). This article follows the recognition by the General Assembly of the United Nations of the right to a healthy environment as a human right and addresses the development of "Green Amendments" in the US.
February 02, 2023
“Once again we find ourselves coming together to say the name of another victim of police violence,” said Deborah Jackson, managing director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) at Northeastern Law. “Another man, 29 years old, just trying to make his way home when he was stopped and brutally beaten by officers who took an oath to serve and protect.”
January 31, 2023
“We have to create a system that allows us to weed out the bad cops so the good ones can thrive,” Professor Deborah Ramirez, chair of the Criminal Justice Task Force, says about rethinking policing. “It means only sending armed police in situations when there is serious crime, felony crime or ongoing crime,” Ramirez tells Northeastern Global News.
January 24, 2023
Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law Director Wendy Parmet said, “Unless and until some courts rule that federal law preempts state bans on using medication abortions to stop pregnancies, providers are apt to remain wary of administering medication abortion,” in Bloomberg Law.
January 24, 2023
Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to discuss what it means when a member of a high-profile lawmaker's family is involved in a legal situation. "There's certainly an advantage to being from a well-known, well-connected family in the sense that you have access to resources and potentially access to influential people," said Medwed.
January 23, 2023
"While Adidas may lose some cases, its expansive approach to trademark enforcement still has strategic and legal reasoning behind it and is unlikely to change," said Professor Alexandra J. Roberts, an intellectual property law professor at Northeastern Law, in this Bloomberg article.
January 20, 2023
Professor Claudia Haupt’s article, “Regulating Speech Online: Free Speech Values in Constitutional Frames,” is featured in First Amendment Law Handbook, an annual compendium of notable First Amendment scholarship. The article was first published in the Washington University Law Review.
January 19, 2023
“These ‘no body’ cases are challenging in part because of an ancient legal concept known as ‘corpus delicti,’ which posits that the government needs to prove that a crime has occurred before charging anyone with it," Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe. "Compelling circumstantial evidence can still yield a conviction in such a case."