Morgan Wilson ’17, legal fellow with Northeastern Law's Domestic Violence Institute and director of its Legal Assistance to Victims project, has been honored as a 2021 Changemaker by the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.
Watch: Professor Brook Baker '76 was interviewed by Boston 25 News on scene yesterday at the Cambridge Moderna demonstration calling for global vaccine equity.
“We needed to both win the ballot and now we have to win in the courts, and luckily we can continue our fight in the courts because we won the ballot,” Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, tells The Boston Globe.
If there’s not a lot of transparency and trust in the system, in its fairness and equity, then there are always going to be some people to game the system, creating a vicious cycle of inequity, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Axios.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH News to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to deny Michelle Carter’s appeal in the texting suicide case.
As Massachusetts loosens COVID-19 restrictions, Professor Daniel Medwed joins GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu to talk about the measures that are in place to keep everyone in the courtroom safe during in-person jury trials and how those measures could impact trials.
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Fertile Ground,' 'Inching Toward Immunity' and 'Talking 'Bout Evolution.' Read it online today!
Michele Coleman Mayes will deliver the keynote address at the School of Law's 12th annual Women in the Law Conference on Friday, May 15, 2020. A renowned speaker on the topic of diversity and inclusion, Coleman Mayes is vice president, general counsel and secretary for the New York Public Library. She is a co-author of the book, Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women General Counsel in the Fortune 500. In 2012, Coleman Mayes received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer. In 2014, she became chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession of the American Bar Association.
“What we have now understood in a way that we did not a couple of decades ago is the rampant cover-up,” Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, associate director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project tells the Miami Herald. “The idea of corporate or organizational responsibility is now coming into the courts.”
“We cannot legislate feelings about race into silence,” writes Professor Patricia Williams in her latest column for The Nation. ”Outlawing shame, guilt, and discomfort is not only silly and impossible; it positions race the same way blasphemy laws position speaking ill of God or the king.”