Landmark Lawsuit: Online Sportsbook VIP Hosts Sued for First Time

Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) is representing the plaintiffs in a landmark lawsuit against DraftKings, FanDuel and the NFL — the first online sports betting case to name VIP hosts as defendants. “I am unaware of anyone else naming a VIP host as a defendant in an online gambling lawsuit until today,” said Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of PHAI and one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, in GamblingHarm.org.

Professor Margaret Burnham Wins Hillman Prize for Book Journalism

Professor Margaret Burnham has won the 2023 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. The Hillman Prizes strive to recognize discernment of a significant news story, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skill in relating the story and the impact of the coverage.

How Attacks on Immigrant Teens Helped Build the Post-Roe Playbook

In a wide-ranging conversation for Ms. Magazine, Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, traces how the first Trump administration’s efforts to block abortion access for unaccompanied immigrant minors foreshadowed the post-Dobbs playbook now being deployed against teens, immigrants and people with the fewest resources.

Paul’s Getting to Maybe Definitely Hits the Mark

Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams has been the best-selling book on law exams since its original publication in 1999. Now, Professor Jeremy Paul and co-author Professor Richard Michael Fischl of the University of Connecticut School of Law have released the second edition of their essential guide to how law exams test legal reasoning and why legal reasoning cannot be reduced to any simple “check the boxes” template.