“There’s a huge movement all across the country to look at historical wrongs, including forced sterilization, and to consider what needs to be done now in order to redress them,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, tells The New York Times Magazine. “I think this is really the question of the 21st century.”
US News recommends that prospective students seeking social justice careers should look for law schools that invest in social change and cites Northeastern Law’s new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as an example.
On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a new bill recently passed by the Massachusetts Legislature that would allow unauthorized immigrants to secure driver's licenses and some of the controversy surrounding it.
Mother Jones digs deep into the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the efforts of Professor Margaret Burnham, Kaylie Simon ’11, Janeen Blake ’09 and other partners to uncover “new information about unsolved murders, push officials to set the record straight, and ask surviving family members what they need to heal.”
Rachael Rollins ’97, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, was the convocation speaker at Boston University School of Law’s graduation ceremony last weekend. “Don’t be afraid to fail,” she told the class of 2022. “Get in the game—even when people say you can’t and shouldn’t.”
Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe that the removal of tents and the recent shuttering of an engagement center were “wrong-headed initiatives that leaned too heavily on law enforcement to simply sweep the problems of Mass. and Cass under the proverbial rug.”
“Both Merck and Pfizer have reserved for themselves all the high-income countries and virtually all of the upper-middle-income countries and even some lower-middle-income countries,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. Professor Baker recently submitted a legal brief in support of the Dominican Republic’s petition to allow the distribution of the generic version of Paxlovid.
Congratulations to Maura Healey ’98, the newly elected governor of Massachusetts! The first woman and first openly gay person elected to the role in Mass., Healey is also the first openly lesbian woman to be elected governor in the US.