Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders have selected Marielena Hincapié ’96, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, to serve as co-chair of their joint task force. Hincapié will advise the Biden campaign on immigration policy.
Watch video: Professor Brook Baker appeared on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” to make the case for a vaccine patent waiver to boost production of the COVID vaccination.
In a piece for the The Nation, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), pays tribute to American civil rights activist Bob Moses: "By leading from a place of quiet, Bob paved the way for hundreds to find the leader within themselves - especially women."
"Over 45 years, his advice to Alaskans has changed with the transformation of the planet." Jeff Lowenfels ’75, retired lawyer, best-selling author and gardening columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, is profiled by The New York Times Magazine!
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and social media, weighs in on the class action lawsuit against FTX founder and his celebrity backers.
“Traditionally the courts and legislatures have been supportive of emergency public health actions,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells STAT. “But not so much anymore.”
US News recommends that prospective students seeking social justice careers should look for law schools that invest in social change and cites Northeastern Law’s new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) as an example.
Mother Jones digs deep into the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the efforts of Professor Margaret Burnham, Kaylie Simon ’11, Janeen Blake ’09 and other partners to uncover “new information about unsolved murders, push officials to set the record straight, and ask surviving family members what they need to heal.”
On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a case being heard in Texas this week involving a death row inmate named Rodney Reed that illustrates the problems with wrongful convictions and the difficulties in overturning them.
The School of Law hosted a virtual commencement celebration on Thursday, May 21. Watch the video highlights!