Championing Water Rights as Human Rights

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.

Professor Jonathan Kahn Receives National Library of Medicine Grant

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.”

Spring 2024 Daynard Lecture by Diala Shamas

Lawyering for Palestinian Rights in These Times Monday, February 12, 2024 | 12:45 - 2:10 PM | 240 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University School of Law Featuring Winter 2024 Daynard Public

Statement from Dean James Hackney

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.