Professor Margaret Burnham to Receive Mass. Bar Foundation’s Great Friend of Justice Award

Professor Margaret Burnham will be honored by the Massachusetts Bar Foundation with a Great Friend of Justice Award at the organization’s  annual meeting on March 5.

    Professor Margaret Burnham to Receive Mass. Bar Foundation’s Great Friend of Justice Award

    02.19.26 — Professor Margaret Burnham will be honored by the Massachusetts Bar Foundation (MBF) with a Great Friend of Justice Award at the organization’s  annual meeting on March 5. The award is presented each year to an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary passion for justice, consistent with the MBF’s values and mission of increasing access to justice for all.

    Burnham is an internationally recognized expert on civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. She is the faculty co-director of the law school’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and founded and directs the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which investigates racial violence in the Jim Crow era and other historical failures of the criminal justice system. In 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Professor Burnham to serve as a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. Her book,  By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton, 2022) has received numerous honors.

    Previous Northeastern Law recipients of the Great Friend of Justice Award include Governor Maura Healey ’98 (2020) and Mary Bonauto ’87 (2016).

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