Northeastern Law Magazine: Winter 2021 Issue
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Future Focused,' Creativity On Demand' and 'Full Speed Ahead. Read it online today!
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Future Focused,' Creativity On Demand' and 'Full Speed Ahead. Read it online today!
Congratulations to Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 on being named one of only two "Bostonians of the Year" by The Boston Globe!
”[Professor Daniel] Medwed’s excellent book—aimed at the general audience rather than the specialist—is a model of clarity and persuasiveness,” writes Judge Jed Rakoff in a review for The Nation.
An investigation by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) has led to an official status change in the death record of Private Albert King, one of dozens of Black service members believed to have been killed on or near US bases because of their race. “Removing the taint is an important dynamic for the whole country, not just for the families, but for the understanding of this particular history,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ, tells The New York Times.
Amelia Yana Garcia Gonzalez ’11 has been tapped to serve as California’s next Secretary for Environmental Protection.
Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”
The impeachment process is really a unicorn in the legal system, says Professor Daniel Medwed who joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about what legal actions could still be taken against the former president.
It is the height of naïveté to believe that words in a political speech can be understood in isolation from their context, writes Professor Michael Meltsner in a letter to the New York Times.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about a new bill that would decriminalize drug possession and use in Massachusetts.