June 01, 2022
Mary Bonauto ’87, who has worked tirelessly to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender, including arguing successfully for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, has been honored with the Muskie Access to Justice Award by the Muskie Fund for Legal Services, a nonprofit fund that supports the direct provision of legal services to low-income and needy elderly Maine residents.
May 31, 2022
“The court of public opinion siding so heavily in Depp’s favor may be a signal of more than just the way viewers understand the evidence, or Depp’s celebrity,” says Professor Margo Lindauer, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute. “It could also signal underlying misogyny.”
May 30, 2022
"If you are responding to overdoses with drug induced homicide prosecutions, you're part of the problem, you're not part of the solution," Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells ABC 7 Chicago.
May 30, 2022
"Mayors often don't realize what their role is until a shooting happens in their community," Sarah Peck ’96, director of #UnitedOnGuns, a nonpartisan initiative of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells NPR News. "What we're trying to do is give them the tools they need to understand the magnitude of their role, which starts when the shooting starts and can continue for years."
May 27, 2022
“The IRS whistleblower program’s success in detecting and deterring tax crimes has been undermined by a recent US Tax Court decision concerning the appropriate standard of review for analyzing decisions made by the IRS Whistleblower Office,” writes Siri Nelson ’19, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and an adjunct professor at Northeastern Law, in a co-authored op-ed for Bloomberg Tax.
May 26, 2022
“A high court decision handing the authority to regulate abortion back to the states would only exacerbate existing interstate divisions,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law. “You’re creating a potential interstate powder keg.”
May 25, 2022
Katie Sandson, an attorney at Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, tells News@Northeastern that there has been some progress toward reparations in the last two years, but it is not enough.
May 25, 2022
Rachael Rollins ’97, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, was the convocation speaker at Boston University School of Law’s graduation ceremony last weekend. “Don’t be afraid to fail,” she told the class of 2022. “Get in the game—even when people say you can’t and shouldn’t.”
May 25, 2022
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to take a closer look at the history of Roe v. Wade and abortion law.
May 25, 2022
Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe that the removal of tents and the recent shuttering of an engagement center were “wrong-headed initiatives that leaned too heavily on law enforcement to simply sweep the problems of Mass. and Cass under the proverbial rug.”
May 24, 2022
The Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, has received two additional two years of funding (2022-2024) to support and expand upon Salus Populi, the nation’s first education program for judges that provides critical information about the social determinants of health.
May 24, 2022
Congratulations to members of the class of 2022 who have earned some of the nation’s most prestigious public interest post-graduate fellowships. They will provide critical legal assistance and advocacy to underrepresented clients and communities across the country.