2023 Top Social Justice/Advocacy Book Award

Professor Daniel Medwed's book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison,was selected for a 2023 Top Social Justice/Advocacy Book Award by In the Margins, which chooses the best books that illuminate issues of race, class and incarceration or highlight the reality of BIPOC and others living in the margins of society.

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.

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.

Q&A with Authors of Bestselling Book Getting to Maybe

Watch video:JD Advising hosted a Q&A with Professor Jeremy Paul and Professor Richard Michael Fischl of the University of Connecticut School of Law, who recently released the second edition of their co-authored book, Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams.

Margaret Burnham Honored in 23rd Annual Massachusetts Book Award

Professor Margaret Burnham's book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, has been named Honors in Nonfiction in the 23rd Annual Massachusetts Book Awards program! Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), will be celebrated at a State House awards ceremony in October.

Kirkus Names Kohn's Rules for Whistleblowers to Top 100 Indie Books of 2023

Congratulations to Stephen Kohn ’84, whose new book, Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What's Right, has been recognized by Kirkus as a Top 100 Indie Book of 2023. Additionally, Rules for Whistleblowers was awarded The Kirkus Star, which recognizes exceptional merit in books. Kohn is a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, founder of the National Whistleblower Center and an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern Law.