Kelly Cooke ’19 is part of a class of 10 female officials who will work games this season in the American Hockey League. “My goal has always been to referee in the Olympics,” she says. “Hopefully, that will be in the cards.”
Read more about the newly launched Burnes Center for Social Change in The Boston Globe! #NUSLPride
Congratulations to Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 on being named one of only two "Bostonians of the Year" by The Boston Globe!
Amelia Yana Garcia Gonzalez ’11 has been tapped to serve as California’s next Secretary for Environmental Protection.
“After Willie Horton, there was this perception that the parole board would be really careful with any an all release decisions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells
The Boston Globe. “You have this culture that over the last 30 years has been more cautious politically.”
“Racial Segregation and the Data-Driven Society: How Our Failure to Reckon with Root Causes Perpetuates Separate and Unequal Realities,” a paper by Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 that is forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, is cited by Wired.
”[Professor Daniel] Medwed’s excellent book—aimed at the general audience rather than the specialist—is a model of clarity and persuasiveness,” writes Judge Jed Rakoff in a review for The Nation.
An investigation by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) has led to an official status change in the death record of Private Albert King, one of dozens of Black service members believed to have been killed on or near US bases because of their race. “Removing the taint is an important dynamic for the whole country, not just for the families, but for the understanding of this particular history,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ, tells The New York Times.
On January 14, 2022, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), appeared before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to provide testimony in support of her nomination to the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.