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."
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.
Betty Francisco ’98, Mass. AG. Maura Healey ’98 and U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins ’97 have been named to Boston Magazine's 2022 Most Influential People in Boston list.
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.
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.
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.
Fox News interviewed Sarah Peck ‘96 about PHAI’s UnitedOnGuns initiative and the resources it has produced to help mayors prepare for a mass shooting: "Mayors rarely think about how they’d respond to a mass shooting until it happens, and they don’t appreciate the magnitude of their role."
“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.”
Professor Libby Adler tells The New York Times that Title IX could be open to interpretation on the issue of transgender athletes and other classes not explicitly defined in the language: “It’s that elasticity or indeterminacy that makes it unlikely to be struck down, but much more likely to be interpreted in ways that are consistent with the politics of the judges we have.”