Remembering SJC Chief Justice Ralph Gants
Professor Daniel Medwed reflects on Chief Justice Gants' impact on the Commonwealth: "He was truly the most honorable justice I've ever met."
Professor Daniel Medwed reflects on Chief Justice Gants' impact on the Commonwealth: "He was truly the most honorable justice I've ever met."
“To depend now on the private sector to increase vaccination rates would further underscore America’s tepid commitment to the basic principles of public health,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for The Atlantic.
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Where to Now?,’ “No Time to Kill’ and ‘Business as Unusual.” Read it online today!
“Voter ID laws, voter purges and poll closures have long been used as strategies to alter elections,” writes Rahsaan Hall ’98, director of the racial justice program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, in a co-authored piece for WBUR's Cognoscenti. “COVID-19 has just made it a little easier.”
“I’m just so honored and humbled to have this opportunity to serve the district for a second term,” State Representative Tram Nguyen ’13 tells The Boston Globe upon her reelection in the 18th Essex District. “We have a lot of work to do on Beacon Hill."
Professor Wendy Parmet tells the National Journal there isn’t a clear way to enforce a national mask requirement: “I personally think that the nudging impact of a mandate at the federal level might be undermined by the almost inevitable political backlash and potential litigation quagmire.”
Read more about the newly launched Burnes Center for Social Change in The Boston Globe! #NUSLPride
Michele Coleman Mayes will deliver the keynote address at the School of Law's 12th annual Women in the Law Conference on Friday, May 15, 2020. A renowned speaker on the topic of diversity and inclusion, Coleman Mayes is vice president, general counsel and secretary for the New York Public Library. She is a co-author of the book, Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women General Counsel in the Fortune 500. In 2012, Coleman Mayes received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer. In 2014, she became chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession of the American Bar Association.
In an interview with Bar & Bench, Maura Kelly ’87, assistant director for LLM and JD advising at Northeastern Law, discusses the law school’s co-op program, the ways in which foreign trained lawyers can find employment in the US and more.