Northeastern Law and Tufts Medical Center are joining together to establish the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety to analyze data from tens of thousands of medical devices to identify safety risks and develop legal tools to address them.
Northeastern Law’s Center for Global Law and Justice and the Human Rights Program of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College invite you to a symposium/CLE on Human Rights Defenders in the United States.
Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has submitted two shadow reports to the UN Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which will be reviewing U.S. compliance with the Race Convention in August.
The Criminal Justice Task Force, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Historical Society and a number of Boston-area organizations, presented two panels this spring: Confronting Economic Injustice: The Story of Parcel
Constitutional law has helped make Americans unhealthy, argues public health law expert Professor Wendy E. Parmet in her new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health(Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has partnered with Food & Water Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights and community members of Jackson, Mississippi, to submit a coalition report on drinking water access and affordability to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Professor Shalanda Baker to the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB), an independent state board that reviews proposed large energy facilities, including power plants, electric transmission lines, intra-state natural gas pipelines and natural gas storage tanks.
In the middle of the night I was transfixed by the fires ablaze in Minneapolis. The next morning, I awoke to the shock of a CNN reporter of color being arrested, for no articulated rationale. Across the nation, protests are releasing the pain of witnessing racial atrocities—all of this in the midst of a pandemic.