July 15, 2022
Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) and NuLawLab has collaborated with the Northeastern History Department to design a unique resource for the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief: an interactive map of indigenous religious rights worldwide.
July 14, 2022
Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project and one of the nation’s leading litigators for reproductive freedom, has been named by Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law as its Practitioner-in-Residence for 2023.
July 13, 2022
“Since Roberts became chief justice, almost all of the decisions are issued on behalf of Catholics or Evangelicals,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells News@Northeastern.
July 12, 2022
As an Equal Justice Works fellow working with Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts (PLS), Sarah Nawab ’20 authored ”A Different Way Forward." The new report details the traumatic experiences of incarcerated women throughout the Commonwealth and makes five recommendations to remedy harm caused by the carceral system.
July 12, 2022
”Given the strength of the global women’s movement and the robust defense of abortion rights in most countries, Dobbs’ relevance may prove isolated to the U.S.,” writes Professor Martha Davis in a piece for The Conversation. “It’s not likely a signal that the worldwide trend of expanding abortion rights is reversing.”
July 11, 2022
“The executive order is [Biden’s] attempt to send a message to the country that whatever he can do, whatever steps he can take, in order to preserve access to abortion, he will take them,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells News@Northeastern.
July 08, 2022
”There are certain courtroom features that are designed to preserve the integrity of the process, and one is the oath,” says Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News.
July 08, 2022
The Supreme Court ruled to allow President Joe Biden to end the Trump-era immigration policy, but Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, says the 5-to-4 ruling was too close for comfort.
July 08, 2022
“It is clear that there is enough evidence to indict and convict the former president of conspiracy to defraud the United States, illegally interfere with the electoral count and even sedition,” says Professor Michael Meltsner.
July 07, 2022
Patricia Garin ’84, co-director of Northeastern Law’s Prisoners’ Rights Clinic and of counsel at Shapiro & Teitelbaum, has been selected as one of two recipients of the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association’s Lelia J. Robinson Award for 2022.
July 07, 2022
The Honorable Albie Sachs, retired justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, has penned a special tribute to Professor Karl Klare: "It was he who introduced the term transformative constitutionalism into South African discourse."
July 07, 2022
Professor Libby Adler tells The New York Times that Title IX could be open to interpretation on the issue of transgender athletes and other classes not explicitly defined in the language: “It’s that elasticity or indeterminacy that makes it unlikely to be struck down, but much more likely to be interpreted in ways that are consistent with the politics of the judges we have.”