December 22, 2022
In an interview with Undark magazine, Professor Jonathan Kahn, a leading authority on biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, rights and citizenship, discusses the use of forensic DNA phenotyping.
December 19, 2022
Zinaida Miller, a leading authority on transitional justice, human rights and humanitarianism, focusing on the reproduction of inequality and structural violence in areas including South Africa, Rwanda, Palestine and the US, will join the Northeastern University faculty on January 1, 2023, as professor of law and international affairs, with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the International Affairs Program of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
December 16, 2022
The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to welcome its spring scholars, Princess Diaz-Bîrca ’23, Emma Nyabisi Onsongo LLM ’23 and Isabella Ulm ’24.
December 16, 2022
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle To Save America, will deliver a special presentation at Northeastern Law’s 15th annual Brown Forum | Women in the Law Conference on Friday, May 5, 2023.
December 16, 2022
Eli Lilly’s manufacturing agreement aimed at boosting insulin access in Africa is “largely a symbolic drop in the bucket,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
December 15, 2022
On the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, the memorial site offers visitors the chance to contemplate and reflect, says Sarah Peck ’96, director of PHAI’s UnitedOnGuns initiative.
December 14, 2022
Check out Professor Daniel Medwed’s reading recommendations for the holiday season!
December 13, 2022
Sebastien Philemon ’24 has been selected as the first Northeastern Law student to be awarded the prestigious Roscoe Trimmier Jr. Diversity Scholarship by Ropes & Gray.
December 12, 2022
An investigation by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) has led to an official status change in the death record of Private Albert King, one of dozens of Black service members believed to have been killed on or near US bases because of their race. “Removing the taint is an important dynamic for the whole country, not just for the families, but for the understanding of this particular history,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ, tells The New York Times.
December 11, 2022
Allyson Crays ’24 has taken third place in the If/When/How 2022 Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights and Justice.
December 09, 2022
The prisoner swap with Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout is a kind of impossible math that can’t—and shouldn’t—be reduced to ”weighing one life against another,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells News@Northeastern.
December 09, 2022
”Punitive-damage awards in public-health cases are a way to change bad corporate conduct,” writes Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, in an op-ed for The Hill. ”They don’t tear down our society, they make it better.”