Nabiha Syed to Deliver Northeastern Law Commencement Address

Northeastern University School of Law will hold commencement exercises for the Class of 2021 on Friday, May 14, at 1 pm at Northeastern University’s Parsons Field in Brookline, Massachusetts. Nabiha Syed, president of The Markup, a new online publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact society, will deliver the commencement address.

Baker Contributes to Complaint Citing International Human Rights Law Violations in COVID Vaccine and Medicines Distribution

Professor Brook Baker ’76 is among the members of an international coalition of human rights groups, public health experts and civil society organizations that submitted inputs and submitted a petition to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) arguing that Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) are in violation of international human rights law by failing to intervene on inequitable and racially discriminatory rollout of COVID vaccines and other healthcare technologies.