US News recommends that prospective students seeking social justice careers should look for law schools that invest in social change and cites Northeastern Law’s new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as an example.
“To pretend that a dose in an American arm doesn’t mean one less dose in an African arm doesn’t make sense,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Scientific American.
“For people who are already incarcerated, of course we should be providing them with the highest level of care possible,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The BostonGlobe. “But paying taxpayer funds to repurpose jail-like [facilities] into ‘treatment’ is not supported by science or civil rights concerns.”
Listen: Professor Beth Noveck, author of Solving Public Problems and director of the Governance Lab, joined the EFF Podcast to talk about how civic technology can enhance people's relationship with the government and help improve their communities.
Listen back: Professor Beth Noveck, director of the Burnes Family Center for Social Change and Innovation, discusses her new book, Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World.
Listen back: On BYUradio’s Top of Mind, Professor Ari Waldman, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), explains why Amazon's biometric systems are drawing concern from US lawmakers and privacy advocates.
On July 14, 2021, Professors Brook Baker and Martha Davis joined a panel of experts to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality and vaccinations. The webinar was sponsored by Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and University of Minnesota Law School Human Rights Center.
Watch video: Professor Brook Baker appeared on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” to make the case for a vaccine patent waiver to boost production of the COVID vaccination.
In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."