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!
On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a case being heard in Texas this week involving a death row inmate named Rodney Reed that illustrates the problems with wrongful convictions and the difficulties in overturning them.
Listen to the final episode of the #Un(re)solved podcast, a five-part investigation of civil rights era cold case murders, produced by Frontline PBS in collaboration with Northeastern Law's Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project.
“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 tells The New York Times that the introduction of more conservative crime control elements could result in renewed pressure on prosecutors to win convictions and “that’s all the more reason for there to be greater transparency and greater accountability.” Medwed is one of a group of six law professors who have tried to strengthen the disciplinary process for prosecuting attorneys by making complaints public.
“This may be the rare situation where this kind of order is necessary,” Professor Parmet, faculty director of NUSL's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New York Times. “But in many of these cases, the devil is in the details.”
Richard Burns ’80, former executive director of the NYC LGBT Community Center, is offering a steady hand as interim CEO of Lambda Legal, which was led by Kevin Cathcart ’82 until his retirement in 2016.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH's Morning Edition to discuss recent and upcoming developments at the Mass. SJC, including last week’s notable opinion interpreting the “anti-bribery” regulations of Massachusetts state alcohol laws.
Congratulations to Rachael Rollins, class of 1997, who has been confirmed by the US Senate as President Biden's choice for US Attorney for Massachusetts!