To recognize the trailblazing career of Professor Patricia Williams, the Race and Private Law Section of the AALS has named an annual award in her honor.
The prisoner swap with Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout is a kind of impossible math that can’t—and shouldn’t—be reduced to ”weighing one life against another,” Professor Alexandra Meise tells News@Northeastern.
Professor Jonathan Kahn, a leading authority on biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, rights and citizenship has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine for his book project, “The Uses of Diversity: Managing Race and Representation in Law, Politics, and the Biosciences.”
In conjunction with her participation in Professor Martha Davis’s Human Rights in the United States seminar, Roshni Patel ’20 is the lead author of a new chapter on the water and human rights, supplementing the 2014 edition of Human Rights in the US: A Handbook for Legal Aid Attorneys.
In the middle of the night I was transfixed by the fires ablaze in Minneapolis. The next morning, I awoke to the shock of a CNN reporter of color being arrested, for no articulated rationale. Across the nation, protests are releasing the pain of witnessing racial atrocities—all of this in the midst of a pandemic.