Trailblazers Celebrate as Rachael Rollins is Formally Sworn in as US Attorney
Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who was formerly sworn in as US attorney for Massachusetts on April 22, making her the first Black woman to hold the post.
Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who was formerly sworn in as US attorney for Massachusetts on April 22, making her the first Black woman to hold the post.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to talk about the significance of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the US Supreme Court.
Professor Wendy Parmet tells Forbes the law around vaccine mandates for Congress is “different” than for other employers, but that the legal case for vaccine mandates in general is “pretty strong” if some exemptions are provided.
Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 shares her New Year’s resolution with The Boston Globe: “To get people talking — really talking — about the need for mental health care to be fully integrated into our health care system.”
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.
“In a well-functioning polity, we would not need litigation to ensure that children can remain healthy at school,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in an op-ed for The Atlantic.
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 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.
Read more about the newly launched Burnes Center for Social Change in The Boston Globe! #NUSLPride