To address the pressing need for a more accessible, effective and just legal system, the leadership team of Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab has co-edited Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems.
To harness the words and power of legal design, which applies design methods to make our legal systems more user-friendly and effective, Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab has joined with organizers from four continents, 11 countries, 16 academic institutions, 15 organizations and countless perspectives to launch the Legal Design Journal, the first online academic journal dedicated to the world of legal design.
he Center for Health Policy and Law’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project, Salus Populi: Educating the Judiciary About the Social Determinants of Health, launched a website, www.saluspopulidoh.com, which is a resource for judges and attorneys who are interested in learning more about how judges can impact health.
“I don’t think whatever gains women have made in the workplace and in political representation are guaranteed,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New Yorker. ”If the Court moved us back to the nineteen-fifties in terms of access to contraception and abortion, well then, I think we would have some of the same social and economic consequences we had then.”
“Even if chiefs see an officer using excessive force or know that an officer has repeated complaints filed against them, it's difficult for the chief to discipline them because the union-controlled arbitration process overturns the verdict," Professor Deborah Ramirez, an advocate for a professional liability insurance system for police offers, tells USA TODAY.
“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”