Conferences and Major Events

2022 - 2023 Conferences and Major Events

August 3, 2022
Center for Law, Equity and Race Faculty Workshop
Dean James Hackney established the Racial Justice Faculty Fellowship to support the research and writing of Northeastern University School of Law faculty. At this research workshop, the 2022 fellows will discuss their projects.

September 19-21, 2022
Fall 2022 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
Anjali Waikar ’05
Operations Director, Litigation, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

October 7, 2022
By Hands Now Known: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Archive Conference
Join CRRJ for an all-day hybrid conference celebrating the launch of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Burnes-Nobles Digital Archive and Professor Margaret Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.

October 21-22, 2022
Reunion and Alumni/ae Weekend
Join us as we honor the classes of 1950s, ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02, 07, ’12 and ’17.

October 28, 2022
Annual Health Law Lecture
Featuring Sarah Richardson, Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University

October 31, 2022
A Conversation with Dr. Amaya Alvez Marin
Dr. Amaya Alvez Marin, professor of law at University of Concepción in Chile, will deliver a presentation on the drafting of a new constitution for Chile.

November 11, 2022
Joel R. Reidenberg Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop

November 14, 2022
A Conversation with William Allen: Correcting a Fundamental Unfairness through the Clemency Process
Presented by Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration

November 14, 2022
Reckoning with Historical Injustice: Journalists at the Frontlines
Join Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) for a conversation with Jerry Mitchell, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, MacArthur Fellow and founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.

November 17, 2022
“The Genome Defense” and the Civil Rights Case Against Gene Patenting
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law and Center for Law, Information and Creativity for a virtual book talk. presented by Professor Jorge L. Contreras, director of the program on intellectual property and technology law at University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.

November 30, 2022
Reparations: The Constitutional Law Landscape
A virtual panel addressing the constitutionality of various reparations proposals and considering how policymakers might anticipate and structure reparations initiatives with Equal Protection challenges in mind.

December 1, 2022
Annual Labor and Employment Program

December 7, 2022
ACLU Expert Emiliano Falcon-Morano Provides a Lens on Data Privacy
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) for a presentation on data privacy law by Emiliano Falconn-Morano, policy counsel for the technology for liberty program at the ACLU of Massachusetts.

February 3, 2023
Corporations and Human Rights: Thoughts on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Movement — A View From Asia
Join Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) for a discussion on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Movement in Asia.

February 6-8, 2023
Fall 2022 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
Derecka Purnell
Human Rights Lawyer and Author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

March 15, 2023
Data & (Dis)obedience
A one-day hybrid convening inspiring collaboration on issues of data-driven surveillance. Presented by the Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC).

March 31, 2023
Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Conference
This in-person convening will examine the collateral consequences of systems involvement and generate data-driven solutions to disrupt carceral contributors. Discussions will focus on family policing, education justice, carceral conditions and systems of post-carceral control. Presented by Northeastern University’s Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project — an interdisciplinary research initiative of Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC), Northeastern College of Arts, Media and Design, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern College of Social Sciences and Humanities

April 4, 2023
Connections
Save the Date for the law school’s largest networking event.

April 5, 2023
Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture
The annual Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture celebrates the memory of the late Valerie Gordon ’93, a fierce advocate for human rights in the US and internationally.

April 14, 2023
2023 Annual Health Law Conference
Join the Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL) for its 2023 annual conference, Viral Misinformation: Health Impacts and Legal Solutions.

Friday, May 4-5, 2023
Brown Forum | Women in the Law Conference 
Northeastern Law’s 15th annual Women in the Law Conference.

May 10, 2023 | 4:00 - 5:15 PM
Denise Carty-Bennia Memorial Bar Awards Reception
Dr. Deborah A. Jackson, managing director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), will deliver the keynote address.

May 12, 2023
Commencement
JD, LLM and MLS graduates will receive their degrees during the School of Law's commencement ceremony at Northeastern University’s historic Matthews Arena. The event will be live-streamed.

May 16- 17, 2023
Inaugural Virtual Privacy Law Job Fair
Northeastern University School of Law and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) are pleased to host the first-of-its-kind privacy law job fair designed to showcase and match law students with a driving passion for data privacy law with law firms looking for talent for the following roles. Details to follow soon!

June 1-2, 2023
Imperiled Democracy
A convening of law school centers to discuss the response of law schools to mounting threats to racial and economic justice.

June 9-10, 2023
2023 Transactional Clinical Conference Boston
Pivots into Practice – Learning, Doing and Innovating in the Pandemic’s Wake

June 15, 2023
Human Rights Treaty Obligations and the U.S.: The Rocky Road to Rights
Join the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy for its annual Bringing Human Rights Home symposium.