Join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project for a discussion on public memorialization in the U.S. with Attorney James Williams. Williams, former chief public defender for Orange and Chatham counties in
This academic year has brought a banner run for Northeastern University School of Law’s moot court teams, with students earning top honors across a wide range of national and regional competitions.
Today, Patricia Williams, one of the most provocative intellectuals in American law and a pioneer of both the law and literature and critical race theory movements in American legal theory, joins Northeastern University as University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, with a joint appointment between the School of Law and the Department of Philosophy and Religion in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. In addition, she will serve as director of Law, Technology and Ethics Initiatives in the School of Law and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Dr. Deborah A. Jackson has joined Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as managing director.
A delegation from University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, visited Northeastern last week. Dean James Hackney was present to observe the signing of a memorandum of understanding that expressed a mutual desire of the two educational establishments to work together and find areas of collaboration and opportunity.
“There should be a lawyer, a legal aid lawyer, in every single clinic in the country. You don’t have to call them a legal aid lawyer. You can call them a problem solver,” says Ellen Lawton '93, a senior fellow at HealthBegins and a national expert in the integration of legal professionals into the healthcare setting to address the social determinants of health,
The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School has named Cole Garvey ’25, Nicholas “Nick” Martin ’25 and Arianna Unger ’26 among its 2024 Fellows.