“Voter ID laws, voter purges and poll closures have long been used as strategies to alter elections,” writes Rahsaan Hall ’98, director of the racial justice program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, in a co-authored piece for WBUR's Cognoscenti. “COVID-19 has just made it a little easier.”
With mandatory or coerced treatment, you actually have something that’s neither ethical nor effective,” Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern Law's Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Forbes.
As the Supreme Court sits on the cusp of becoming more conservative, Ginsburg’s absence will be felt most deeply by the many people seeking abortions that she fought to protect, writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in a symposium piece for the SCOTUS Blog.
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Where to Now?,’ “No Time to Kill’ and ‘Business as Unusual.” Read it online today!
Professor Daniel Medwed reflects on Chief Justice Gants' impact on the Commonwealth: "He was truly the most honorable justice I've ever met."
Communities of color are disproportionately subsidizing an energy system that is killing them, writes Professor Shalanda Baker in an op-ed for WBUR's Cognoscenti.
Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, is interviewed by the ABA Journal about her work on the front lines of civil rights and social justice.
“You don’t want there to ever be a time when there’s not a president,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells The Boston Globe.
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 and Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 has been recognized among the “Power 50 for 2020: Extraordinary Year, Extraordinary People” list by the Boston Business Journal.
In a co-authored blog for the American Constitution Society (ACS), Professor Martha Davis, highlights Justice Ginsburg's human rights-based approaches to equality as a "critical aspect of her legacy."