Twitter and Facebook Have the Right to Ban Trump’s Accounts. But That Won’t Stop the Violent Rhetoric.
Professors Claudia Haupt and Woodrow Hartzog comment on social platforms and free speech for Northeastern News....
Professors Claudia Haupt and Woodrow Hartzog comment on social platforms and free speech for Northeastern News....
In an op-ed co-authored for the LA Times, Professor Woodrow Hartzog addresses the need to hold social media companies accountable for their role in fostering political violence.
Recommended listening: On Kara Swisher's New York Times “Sway” podcast, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 weighs in on social media, the Sacklers and Florida’s 'Don’t Say Gay' bill.
Professor Patricia J. Williams has been named co-recipient of the AALS Women in Legal Education Section’s 2026 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award.
Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) for a symposium with CLEAR Faculty Fellows, Zinaida Miller and Caleb Gayle Further details to follow soon. >> Register online Zinaida Miller
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 has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for books published in 2022. Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners was among 12 outstanding books recognized for literary excellence and the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.
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.
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.
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.