In Lynn’s Mayoral Race, Voters Picked School Committee Member Jared C. Nicholson to Lead the City.
Congratulations to Professor Jared Nicholson, director of Northeastern Law’s Community Business Clinic, on his election as mayor of Lynn!
Congratulations to Professor Jared Nicholson, director of Northeastern Law’s Community Business Clinic, on his election as mayor of Lynn!
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 switch by food delivery drivers to motorized two-wheeled vehicles “is really an attempt to make low-wage, high-risk labor available so that all of us can have cheap goods and services,” Professor Hilary Robinson tells the Associated Press. “It’s perhaps one of the reasons why people are starting to realize that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.”
“The marriage story is a story of democracy in action,” said Mary Bonauto ’87 in recorded remarks for GLAD’s 20th anniversary celebration of the freedom to marry. Mary argued successfully for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges two decades ago.
Rachel Garcia ’21 has been named as a runner up in the 2020 Ernst & Young (EY) US Young Tax Professional of the Year (YTPY) competition, an exciting international competition that identifies and rewards the next generation of leaders in business, tax, law and technology.
Martha Davis, Northeastern Law Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has been named chair of the Expert Committee for the HumanRight2Water (HR2W). This committee is comprised of expert members of HR2W with a high-profile academic background related to water governance issues and appointed by the Board.
A round robin career path networking event that will provide students with an opportunity to engage with Northeastern Law alumni/ae from a range of organizations and roles including those at the intersection of health and technology law.
Fearless but not flawless, Northeastern Law welcomed almost 1,000 participants across Zoom and YouTube to a live, virtual commencement celebration of the Class of 2020 on Thursday, May 21, 2020. More than 200 JD, LLM and MLS graduates were joined by family and friends from the across the globe for the festivities, which included remarks by students, faculty and staff as well as celebratory videos to mark the occasion.
New Article Alert: Check out Professor Alexandra Meise’s timely new piece for the American Society of International Law’s publication, ASIL Insights.
Joseph Feaster ’75, an attorney, former president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and current member of the city’s Black Men & Boys Commission, will serve as the chair of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's new Reparations Task Force. “We are looking forward to determining recommendations for how we reckon with Boston’s past while charting a path forward for Black people whose ancestors labored without compensation and who were promised the 40 acres and a mule they never received,” said Feaster in Boston.com.