U.S. Climate Commitments in the Wake of West Virginia v. EPA
New Article Alert: Check out Professor Alexandra Meise’s timely new piece for the American Society of International Law’s publication, ASIL Insights.
New Article Alert: Check out Professor Alexandra Meise’s timely new piece for the American Society of International Law’s publication, ASIL Insights.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition earlier this week to discuss a peculiar property dispute nd the legal issues at stake.
Amelia Yana Garcia Gonzalez ’11 has been tapped to serve as California’s next Secretary for Environmental Protection.
Professor Margaret Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, has been named a finalist in the nonfiction category for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards!
“Massachusetts already has one of the most highly utilized involuntary commitment systems in the entire country,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells WBUR. “Thousands of people are involuntarily committed every year and those people by and large are worse off when they come out than when they went in.”
”[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.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH’s Morning Edition to discuss the claims being raised by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team.
Congratulations to Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 on being named one of only two “Bostonians of the Year” by The Boston Globe!