On August 4, the army unveiled a historic marker honoring the life of Private Felix Hall, who was found hanging from a tree on a segregated Army base in Georgia in 1941. Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) was first to unearth the FBI file on Hall, the only known victim of a lynching on a US military installation.
Professor Martha Davis was recently invited to become a member of the expert panel of Human Right 2 Water (HR2W), an international water advocacy organization in Geneva that focuses on integrating the human rights to water and sanitation into law, policy and practice worldwide.
Professor Martha Davis, an internationally recognized expert on human rights, has been appointed as a 2022-2023 fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
CPIAC is pleased to announce that Janelle Orsi has been selected as the 2025-2026 Givelber Distinguished Public Interest Lecturer.
Marielena Hincapié ’96, a nationally recognized leader and legal/political strategist in the social justice movement, has been named by Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law (WIL) as its Practitioner-in-Residence for 2025–2026.
Professor Sonia E. Rolland has been selected to serve on the Annual Meeting Committee of the American Society of International Law, bringing her extensive expertise in international economic law and development to help shape one of the field’s most significant gatherings.
Marielena Hincapié, a nationally recognized leader and legal/political strategist in the social justice movement, has been named by Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law (WIL) as its Practitioner-in-Residence for 2025–2026.
Professor Daniel Medwed has co-authored an amicus brief in a Pennsylvania Supreme Court death penalty case in which the state attorney general has intervened in an attempt to stop the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office from conceding error in the trial of Lavar Brown, who was convicted of a 2003 murder.