An innovative, traveling art installation was unveiled at Northeastern’s Cabot Court on October 6, 2022. The project, a partnership between Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and PBS Frontline’s Un(re)solved initiative, uses augmented reality, African American quilt traditions and investigative reporting to bridge the gap between the past and present.
As technology ushers in new avenues for abuse, Professor Margo Lindauer '07 and Morgan Wilson ’17 of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute share information about what to watch out for this and every month.
The Honorable Albie Sachs, retired justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, has penned a special tribute to Professor Karl Klare: "It was he who introduced the term transformative constitutionalism into South African discourse."
Professor Woodrow Hartzog has come out in support of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo’s proposed Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act, which prohibits online platforms, including social media companies, ad networks and streaming services, from targeting political ads based on the demographic or behavioral data of users.
“Even if vaccines were the only consideration, overriding patents alone is not enough,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells In These Times magazine.
President Biden's budget proposal, which reverses a decades-long ban on abortion funding, is a "significant win for protecting abortion rights," writes Mackenzie Darling '22 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
Listen back: Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), is interviewed on NU Library’s What’s New Podcast.
On Friday, January 25, the Northeastern community gathered to pay homage to the life and values of Dr. King through the power of film, music and conversation. The event featured the premier of Murder in Mobile, an inspiring short documentary which highlights the work of NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ). The film tells the story of how Chelsea Schmitz '13 unearthed the case of Rayfield Davis, a black man who was murdered in 1948 in Mobile, Alabama, by a white man who was never prosecuted.
“For us to get the guilty verdict, I believe it restores hope,” The Reverend Willie Bodrick II ‘20 tells CBS Boston. “It lets people know that their protest, their voices have been heard.”
Professors Martha Davis and Dan Urman share their thoughts on the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.