Politics Is Derailing a Crucial Debate Over the Immunity You Get From Recovering From COVID-19

“Laws can’t be perfect, and they certainly can’t be perfect early in a pandemic,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells STAT News . “You can’t expect the state policy to change with every preprint. That would just be madness.” @NUSLHealth @phlawwatch https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/19/politics-is-derailing-a-crucial-debate-over-the-immunity-you-get-from-recovering-from-covid-19

A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?

Mother Jones digs deep into the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the efforts of Professor Margaret Burnham, Kaylie Simon ’11, Janeen Blake ’09 and other partners to uncover “new information about unsolved murders, push officials to set the record straight, and ask surviving family members what they need to heal.”

Law School Applicants and Social Justice Careers

US News recommends that prospective students seeking social justice careers should look for law schools that invest in social change and cites Northeastern Law’s new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as an example.

Mass. Hockey Spotlight: Kelly Cooke ’19

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.”