August 30, 2022
To meet the need for creative and technologically savvy lawyers, Northeastern Law is launching the JD x Graduate Certificate in Legal Design —an interdisciplinary certificate program that encompasses courses and experiences that will provide JD students with opportunities for in-depth study and practice of legal design and its application in specific contexts, positioning them for the increasing number of postgraduate jobs in the field.
August 22, 2022
Amber Kolb ’23 has taken first place in the 2022 Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest. This highly competitive award is sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Family Law to promote interest and scholarship in family law.
August 22, 2022
“The release of an entirely unredacted affidavit would set a dangerous precedent,” says Professor Michael Meltsner.
August 22, 2022
“There is no good reason to provide hundreds of in-game betting opportunities and relentless advertising other than to recruit and exploit people who are at risk of a gambling problem,” write Professors Richard Daynard and Mark Gottlieb ’93 in a co-authored op-ed for The Boston Globe.
August 19, 2022
“The six days that we spent at the United Nations were transformative, illuminating and empowering,” writes Jennifer Wakefield ’23, a current PHRGE co-op student who recently attended the U.S. CERD Review in Geneva alongside Professor Martha Davis.
August 18, 2022
Commenting for News@Northeastern, Professors Alexandra Meise and Ari Waldman explain why concerns about data being used in abortion cases are warranted.
August 17, 2022
For those who attended the UN’s periodic review of U.S. compliance with its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism (CERD) last week, “Geneva was a place for imagining an America where human rights and racial justice are firmly enshrined and respected,” writes Professor Martha Davis in a blog for Human Rights at Home.
August 17, 2022
Mehreen Butt has joined Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law as managing director. A public policy attorney with more than 15 years of experience working in the social justice and public policy fields and on local, state and federal campaigns, Butt is knowledgeable in healthcare, poverty, sexual and reproductive rights, and immigrant and voting reform.
August 17, 2022
Julia Gaffney ’23 has placed third in the 2022 Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essay Contest. This highly competitive award is sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Family Law to promote interest and scholarship in family law.
August 16, 2022
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, provides a summary of the key Supreme Judicial Court decisions that been issued over the summer.
August 16, 2022
The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to welcome its fall scholars, Tiffany Wang ’24 and Lauren Yamaguch ’24
August 15, 2022
Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 will be traveling the state (and hitting the court!) over the next few months as she campaigns to be the next governor of Massachusetts. Check out The Boston Globe’s coverage of her recent visit to Lawrence.