Salus Populi Project Launches New Website

he Center for Health Policy and Law’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project, Salus Populi: Educating the Judiciary About the Social Determinants of Health, launched a website, www.saluspopulidoh.com, which is a resource for judges and attorneys who are interested in learning more about how judges can impact health.

PHRGE Marks World Water Day with Release of New Report

To mark World Water Day on Friday, March 22, 2019, the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy has released a new publication, The Human Right to Water: Using Freedom of Information Laws to Understand Rising Water Rates.

Kresge Foundation Awards $250,000 Grant to NuLawLab

The Kresge Foundation has awarded a renewal grant of $250,000 to Northeastern University School of Law’s NuLawLab to provide ongoing support for Stable Ground, a collaboration among three organizations: NuLawLab, which leads the project and has engaged arts-based disciplines since 2013 to imagine and realize new models of legal empowerment; the City of Boston’s Office of Housing Stability, which works to prevent displacement and promote housing preservation and stabilization; and Violence Transformed, which fosters creative action to overcome violence and extends trauma-informed training to community-based groups.

Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab Co-Launches First Legal Design Journal

To harness the words and power of legal design, which applies design methods to make our legal systems more user-friendly and effective, Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab has joined with organizers from four continents, 11 countries, 16 academic institutions, 15 organizations and countless perspectives to launch the Legal Design Journal, the first online academic journal dedicated to the world of legal design.

Richardson Co-Authors “Smart City” Report

Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 is the co-author of a new report that examines an emergent form of smart-city projects called digital identification (“digital ID”) and offers pathways forward to ensure constituent needs are addressed.