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.
Professor Margaret Woo of Northeastern Law and Professor Cornelis van Rhee of Maastricht University have launched Comparative Civil Procedure, a dynamic addition to the Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series.
In a co-authored article for JAMA, Professors David Simon and Hooman Noorchashm, together with Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow of Tufts Medical Centewho serve as co-directors of the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety (AJRC), propose creating a patent database for medical devices modeled after the FDA's Orange Book for drugs.
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.
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.
Professor Claudia Haupt’s article, “Regulating Speech Online: Free Speech Values in Constitutional Frames,” is featured in First Amendment Law Handbook, an annual compendium of notable First Amendment scholarship. The article was first published in the Washington University Law Review.