Maria Martinez ’24 and Valerie Orellana ’24 participated in the 2023 Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the Hispanic National Bar Association. The Northeastern Law team argued in two preliminary rounds and won the Best Brief Award (for the petitioner).
“After Willie Horton, there was this perception that the parole board would be really careful with any an all release decisions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells
The Boston Globe. “You have this culture that over the last 30 years has been more cautious politically.”
There certainly would be the opportunity to argue about abortion under the Equal Rights Amendment, but it's not clear how that would come out, Professor Martha Davis tells NPR.
“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.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about US intellectual property law and at least one effort underway to get companies to share their vaccine formulas.
Listen back: NuLawLab's Dan Jackson '97 and Jules Rochielle Sievert joined the Reimagining Justice podcast to share their insights on the importance of creativity, community and fun in developing legal inventors of the future!