As technology ushers in new avenues for abuse, Professor Margo Lindauer '07 and Morgan Wilson ’17 of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute share information about what to watch out for this and every month.
The Honorable Albie Sachs, retired justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, has penned a special tribute to Professor Karl Klare: "It was he who introduced the term transformative constitutionalism into South African discourse."
Professor Woodrow Hartzog has come out in support of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo’s proposed Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act, which prohibits online platforms, including social media companies, ad networks and streaming services, from targeting political ads based on the demographic or behavioral data of users.
On August 4, the army unveiled a historic marker honoring the life of Private Felix Hall, who was found hanging from a tree on a segregated Army base in Georgia in 1941. Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) was first to unearth the FBI file on Hall, the only known victim of a lynching on a US military installation.
President Biden's budget proposal, which reverses a decades-long ban on abortion funding, is a "significant win for protecting abortion rights," writes Mackenzie Darling '22 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
Listen back: Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), is interviewed on NU Library’s What’s New Podcast.
To mark #HumanRightsDay, Northeastern Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has released a new publication, “Disconnected: How Household Water Shutoffs in the United States During the COVID Pandemic Violate the Human Right to Water.”
On Friday, January 25, the Northeastern community gathered to pay homage to the life and values of Dr. King through the power of film, music and conversation. The event featured the premier of Murder in Mobile, an inspiring short documentary which highlights the work of NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ). The film tells the story of how Chelsea Schmitz '13 unearthed the case of Rayfield Davis, a black man who was murdered in 1948 in Mobile, Alabama, by a white man who was never prosecuted.
Professor Brook Baker responds to Costa Rica’s request for an emergency COVID-19 Technology Intellectual Property Pool (TIPP) for all countries: “Simply put, no exclusive rights should stand in the way of governments’ and the global community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
In her latest piece for the Human Rights at Home Blog, Professor Martha Davis addresses Justice Alito’s dismissal of an equal protection challenge to abortion restrictions.