In an interview with City & State New York, Carmelyn Malalis ’01 reflects on her tenure as the head of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Malalis stepped down from her role with the commission on October 1, after almost seven years of service.
Listen back: Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity, (CLIC) joined the Bloomberg Law podcast to discuss the spike in police use of geofence warrants.
“Racial Segregation and the Data-Driven Society: How Our Failure to Reckon with Root Causes Perpetuates Separate and Unequal Realities,” a paper by Professor Rashida Richardson ’11 that is forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, is cited by Wired.
“Representation at the top is vital to opening doors to more diverse talent and advancing policy and programs that create more equitable outcomes for all Massachusetts residents,” Betty Francisco ’98, CEO of Boston Impact Initiative Fund and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, in a co-authored piece for the Boston Business Journal.
“Real privacy data legislation would protect people regardless of what they choose, and consent to,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells The Boston Globe. “This legislation doesn’t seem to offer that… It’s just going to allow business as usual.”
On January 14, 2022, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), appeared before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to provide testimony in support of her nomination to the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
The choosing of Boston’s next police commissioner is an opportunity to reexamine the role of police in Boston, write Professor Deborah Ramirez and Claire Bergstresser in a co-authored piece for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
“Claiming that the lack of enforcement of other, unrelated ordinances somehow augurs in favor of overlooking this one strikes me as a red herring,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe.