Professor Ari Ezra Waldman has been named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. A leading authority on law, technology and society, Waldman directs the School of Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC).
In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."
Professor Woodrow Hartzog is quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
“While justice has been served today because of this verdict, we still have a long way to go in making our justice system more equitable,” Frederick Brewington ’82 , a civil rights attorney and principal of The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, tells Black Star News. “It is every person’s duty to not run from the historical realities of racism that continue to divide us, but to address them and engage with each other to solve these deep-rooted concerns.”
Listen now! Qainat Khan ’20 has produced a four-part series on affordable housing for WBUR Radio Boston. The final episode airs tomorrow and will feature Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand.
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today about two of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 regulations. At stake “is not only the future of the pandemic but also the federal government’s capacity to respond to continuing and future health threats,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, in a guest essay for The New York Times.
Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97, who will be sworn in today as the first Black woman US Attorney for Massachusetts!
“People are dropping dead by the thousands [in the opioid epidemic], and we are teetering around the edges,”Professor Leo Beletsky tells Vox Media.
Margo Lindauer '07, director of the School of Law's Domestic Violence Institute, tells Refinery29 that custody proceedings can increase the lethality of domestic violence situations: “Children are often the last link between abusers and their victims and that abusers often exploit family courts in an effort to retain power.”