Conferences and Major Events

2024 -2025 Conferences and Major Events

September 18, 2024
SCOTUS Focus Over Coffee
Judy Brown and  Wendy Parmet, two long-time friends and professors of law, will discuss recent Supreme Court rulings.

September 26, 2024
The Impact of Women’s Entrepreneurship on Communities of Color
Join Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law at Mills College at Northeastern in Oakland, California, for a panel discussion that will highlight the unique ways women’s entrepreneurship supports communities of color.

September 27, 2024
Salus Populi Judicial Education Program
This full-day, interactive, seminar-style program is designed to give judges an introduction to the social determinants of health and their relationship to judicial decision-making, plus the tools they need to apply their knowledge to their work on the bench

October 1, 2024
They’re Playing Our Song (Without Our Permission): Music Law on the Campaign Trail
What does the law have to say about politicians’ unauthorized uses of songs and musicians’ objections to them? When are copyright, trademark, advertising and right of publicity law implicated in these disputes? Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) and musician, lawyer and law professor Kevin Casini to explore these questions and more.

October 7-9, 2024
Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
Christian Snow ’18
Executive Director, Law for Black Lives (L4BL)

October 18-19, 2024
Reunion and Alumni/ae Weekend
Join us as we honor the classes of the 1950s, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, 99, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019.

October 23, 2024
Race, Human Bodies and the Law: A Conversation
Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) in partnership with the Africana Studies Program for an engaging conversation with Professor Patricia J. Williams, author of The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies and the Spirit of the Law, and Linda Greenhouse, an award-winning journalist and former staff member of The New York Times.

October 24, 2024
Center for Global Law and Justice Launch
Join us for the launch of Northeastern Law’s Center for Global Law and Justice (CGLJ). The new center employs innovative and collaborative approaches to address the most urgent global challenges of our time.

November 4, 2024
Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten
Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law 2024 Health Law lecture will be delivered by Professor Lindsay Wiley, faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law, and Dr. Seema Mohapatra, Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and professor of law at SMU Dedman School of Law.

November 13-25, 2024
Brown Forum Women in the Law Practitioner-in-Residence
Carrie Goldberg, founder of leading victims’ rights law firm C.A. Goldberg, has been named by Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law (WIL) as its Practitioner-in-Residence for 2024-2025.

February 3-5, 2025
Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
Azadeh Shahshahani
Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South

February 20, 2025
CLIC for Social Justice: The Free Exercise of Copyright Behind Bars
join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity for a discussion on using copyright law as a civil right and a tool for carceral reform, based on Professor Viva Moffat’s paper, “The Free Exercise of Copyright Behind Bars.”

February 19, 2025
Growing Otherwise from Eugenics, Fascism and Genocide: Disability Justice and the Limits of the Law
Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) for a discussion with Lydia X. Z. Brown ’18, assistant teaching professor in disability studies and law and public policy discipline coordinator for the leadership education in neurodevelopmental and related disabilities fellowship program at Georgetown University.

February 28 - March 1, 2025
Junior Scholars Conference
The conference is designed to provide a space for junior faculty to engage with their peers in a friendly environment.

March 13, 2025
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Northeastern School of Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) welcomes writer and author Liz Pelly to discuss her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.

March 18, 2025
Not All In: A Book Launch With Tiffany Joseph
Join the Center for Health Policy and Law for a book launch with Tiffany Joseph, associate professor of sociology and international affairs at Northeastern University. Professor Joseph will discuss her new book, Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare,

March 25, 2025
Danielle Ponder Musical Tribute to Hope Lewis
Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race for the launch of the Hope Lewis Distinguished Lecture, featuring a musical tribute by award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Danielle Ponder ’11.

March 26, 2025
Hope Lewis Distinguished Lecture
Gay McDougall, a human rights leader, attorney and distinguished scholar in residence at Fordham Law’s Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, has been named as the inaugural Hope Lewis Distinguished Lecturer.

April 1, 2025
Use and Disclosure of AI in IP
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) for a discussion featuring Jacob Noti-Victor, associate professor of law at Cardozo School of Law, and David Stein, assistant professor of law and computer Science at Northeastern University.

April 3, 2025
Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture: “The Role of Human Rights in Climate Activism”
Anne Orford, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, will deliver the 30th annual Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture.

April 9, 2025
Connections
Join us for Connections, the law school’s largest networking event.

April 10, 2025
Giving Day
On Thursday, April 10, the Northeastern Law community will come together once again to celebrate Giving Day—the university’s largest and only 24-hour philanthropic event. 

April 11, 2025
The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical and Legal Questions
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity and Harvard Law School for a timely conversation at the intersection of law, technology and human cognition.

April 16, 2025
The Role of Lived Experience in Making Change
Join Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Equity and Race for a discussion with Kenneth Hartman, an award-winning writer and prison reform activist, on how leveraging lived experience is the key to making sustainable and substantial change to the criminal legal system.

April 18, 2025
Three Years After Dobbs: The Reproductive Justice Landscape
The Center for Health Policy and Law’s 2025 conference will offer critical insights into the state of reproductive rights three years after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Khiara M. Bridges of Berkeley Law, a prominent scholar on race, class and reproductive rights.

April 28
Denise Carty-Bennia Memorial Bar Awards Reception
The 32nd Annual Denise Carty-Bennia Memorial Bar Awards Reception will be held on Monday, April 28, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:15 PM in 250 Dockser Hall. The awardees are selected by the Alumni/ae Association Board of Directors based on an application process.

May 1, 2025
Brown Forum for Women in the Law
This dynamic gathering draws women from every level of professional development and accomplishment, providing career guidance, unparalleled professional development advice and networking.

May 2, 2025
Commencement 2025
Members of the class of 2025 will receive their degrees during the School of Law’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 2.

June 11, 2025
Washington, DC, Alumni/ae Reception
Join fellow alumni/ae in the nation’s capital on June 11 to celebrate the recent launch of Northeastern Law’s Center for Global Law and Justice (CGLJ).

June 19, 2025
Celebrate Juneteenth with Northeastern Law and the Worcester Red Sox
The Alumni/ae Association and the Office of Alumni/ae Relations and Development will host its fourth annual WooSox networking event at the fabulous Polar Park on June 19 in celebration of Juneteenth.

October 17-18, 2025
Reunion and Alumni/ae Weekend
Join us on October 17-18, 2025, as we honor the classes of the 1950s, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, 00, ’05, ’10, ’15 and ’20.