Professor Woodrow Hartzog has been selected to receive Northeastern University's Research and Creative Activity Award in recognition of the prolific body of work he produced in 2020, including several law review articles and a co-authored book titled Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It.
Urvashi Vaid ’83, president and founder of the Vaid group, was honored as a Woman of Moral Courage at the Auburn Seminary’s Lives of Commitment virtual celebration on April 29.
“For us to get the guilty verdict, I believe it restores hope,” The Reverend Willie Bodrick II ‘20 tells CBS Boston. “It lets people know that their protest, their voices have been heard.”
In her contribution to Divided We Fall's Civility Without Borders series, Professor Martha Davis argues that ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights (ICESCR) would benefit the United States both domestically and internationally.
The class of 2021 received their degrees during the School of Law’s commencement ceremony at Northeastern University’s Parsons Field in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Friday, May 14. Nabiha Syed, president of The Markup, delivered the Commencement Address. Watch the ceremony here.
As autonomous systems become more ubiquitous in daily life, instances of these systems behaving in unintended ways are also becoming more frequent—or are inherently flawed when behaving as expected. Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Rashida Richardson explore the failure points in these complex systems.
Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand is featured in WalletHub's review of the Capital One Savor credit card.
“If this administration is serious about ending the overdose crisis, it will need to redeploy the tools of the DOJ in true service to public health. Change can’t come soon enough,” write Professor Leo Beletsky and his colleagues at Health in Justice Action Lab, in a co-authored op-ed for The Appeal.
“The harm of not being able to pass immigration reform is we’re losing out on really good people," Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, tells the Cape Cod Times.