Northeastern University School of Law. The leader in experience-based legal education. Ranked no. 1 for practical training by The National Jurist.
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Congrats to Prof. Alexandra Roberts
@lexlanham
, for winning the International Trademark Association’s Ladas Memorial Award in the professional category for her article, “A Poetics of Trademark Law,” forthcoming in the
@BerkeleyTechLJ
.
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@INTA
We are pleased to announce that
@Elibietti
, an expert on market regulation, data and antitrust law, will join the
@Northeastern
community on July 15, 2023, as assistant professor of law and computer science.
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@NUGlobalNews
Meet Our New Faculty! Professor Lua Kamál Yuille
@profyuille
is a recognized praxivist, a philosophy that involves using her theoretical scholarship to inform her engagement in social change.
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@NU_Business
@NUExperts
We are pleased to announce that
@david__simon
, an expert on intellectual property, healthcare law, data and privacy will join the
@Northeastern
community on July 1, 2023, as associate professor of law.
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Today is the official release date of Professor Woodrow
@hartzog
's new co-authored book, Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it!
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@NUSLclic
@NU_ADVANCE
“To substantially shift the experiences of people who use drugs in their communities, decriminalization must be coupled with meaningful police reform & efforts to build-up systems of support and care,” says
@LeoBeletsky
, director of
@HiJAction
.
@NUSLHealth
Northeastern Law's Daynard Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program kicks off today! Join human rights lawyer and author,
@dereckapurnell
, for a community conversation and roundtable on Feb. 6-8 in 240 Dockster Hall.
@NUGlobalNews
@NUSL_CPIAC
Check this out! Professor
@DanielMedwed
’s book, Prosecution Complex, got some well-deserved screen-time on last night’s episode of
@LastWeekTonight
with John Oliver. Watch the show on prosecutors & the power they hold within the criminal justice system at
“Overdose prevention sites, wide access to naloxone, quality treatment for addiction, and addressing the underlying issues of lack of housing and economic opportunity are more valuable than additional policing,” Prof.
@LeoBeletsky
tells
@VICE
.
@HiJAction
Northeastern Law's faculty colloquia series welcomes Professor Sarah Burstein
@design_law
, academic co-director of
@Suffolk_Law
’s IP Center and an internationally-recognized expert in design patent law, as a speaker today to present "Uncreative Designs.”
We are pleased to announce that Alexandra Jane Roberts will join the NU faculty next month as professor of law and media. Follow Professor Roberts at
@lexlanham
to read her tweets about trademark, false advertising and entertainment law!
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@NUCamd
We want to reassure students who have applied or have been admitted to Northeastern University that disciplinary actions associated with participation in peaceful protests will not jeopardize your admission.
Fighting for “justice” not constructed “rights.” Chase Strangio '10, staff attorney with the
@ACLU
’s LGBT & HIV Project, delivers the 2018 Daynard Community Lecture.
@chasestrangio
“The current media frenzy around ‘deadly’ fentanyl exposure through skin contact is just one example of how urban myths can lead to bad policy on drugs,” Professor
@LeoBeletsky
tells
@VICE
.
@NUSLHealth
Congratulations to Professor
@JSilbey
, Nicole Bluefort '10, Ashley Brooks '05, Chelsea Loughran '08, Karen O’Toole '86, Raquel Webster '03, Heather Yountz '07, Rachael Splaine Rollins '97
@Rollins4DA
and all who were honored last night as
#TopWomenofLaw2018
!
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"The US has a long and troubling history of exploiting prisoners and other vulnerable groups for medical research,” says
@LeoBeletsky
. "The apparent clinical trial...at the Louisiana State Penitentiary reminds us that even today, we must remain vigilant.”
Congrats to
@Staci__Rubin
, who has been appointed a DPU Commissioner by
@MasGov
Maura Healey ’98. “It’s a tremendous honor to return to the DPU and serve an administration that is committed to equity and reducing climate-damaging emissions,” said Rubin.
Congratulations to Boston City Councilor
@JoshZakim
’09, who has earned the Democratic Party’s endorsement for the office of Secretary of State!
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In a
@BostonGlobe
op-ed. Professor Woodrow
@hartzog
makes the case for a “bold new privacy bill,” the Massachusetts Information Privacy Act (MIPA). “If it becomes a law, it would be the most revolutionary piece of privacy legislation in the United States."
Dean James Hackney (center) proudly accepted the 2022 LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Institutional Award on behalf of Northeastern Law at
@TheAALS
annual meeting in San Diego earlier today!
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#AALS2023
@KaraWSwanson
Kudos to Professor
@WeParmet
on being awarded a prestigious
@RWJF
grant to support a 2 year project by
@NUSLHealth
&
@Northeastern
's Institute for Health Equity & Social Justice Research to educate judges about the social determinants of health!
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Northeastern Law is pleased to announce the hiring of five exceptional faculty members: Melvin J. Kelley IV, Elizabeth Knowles, Alexandra (Xander) Meise, Rashida Richardson ’11 & Lua Kamál Yuille
@profyuille
!
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@AlumniNU
@NUCSSH
@Northeastern
"This kind of misinformation is definitely harmful,” Professor
@LeoBeletsky
, faculty director of
@HiJAction
's, tells
@nytimes
. "If people think that they might die of an overdose from providing emergency assistance — that might cost lives.”
@NUSLHealth
Hot off the press! In her new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health,
@NUSLHealth
Professor Wendy E. Parmet
@weparmet
argues reform is critical before the next pandemic strikes.
@NU
Congratulations to
@DanielMedwed
on his appointment to the rank of University Distinguished Professor, the highest honor the university can bestow upon a faculty member!
Martín Espada ’85, professor of English at
@UMassAmherst
, has been named the 2018 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by
@PoetryFound
! The award for outstanding lifetime achievement will be presented to Martín at a ceremony on June 11.
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Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Aliza Hochman Bloom (
@AHochmanBloom
), who studies race in the Fourth Amendment and criminal sentencing reforms, will join the Northeastern community on July 1, 2023, as assistant professor of law.
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Join us on Friday, April 8, for a full day conference celebrating the brilliant, passionate and significant contributions that Professor Karl Klare has made to
@Northeastern
, to legal education and to the cause of working people!
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Register at:
Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of NUSL's Criminal Justice Task Force and a long-time advocate for policy changes in the criminal justice system, contributes to an ABC News Special Report on the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin.
@NUexperts
Professor
@LeoBeletsky
is quoted by The
@WashingtonPost
: “Bottom line is that the federal government is CHOOSING to enter into this battle, just as it’s paying lip service to public health.”
Thank you Jennifer Oliva
@jenndoliva
, Associate Professor of Law at
@SetonHallLaw
, for sharing your paper, Public Health Litigation Transparency, as part of our 2020
@NUSLHealth
conference! Now streaming at
Congratulations to Oriana Farnham '21, Erin Stewart '21 and
@MoriahJWilkins
’21 on being awarded 2-yr Skadden Fellowships, among the most competitive and prestigious awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law!
@SkaddenArps
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In an interview with
@MITSloan
, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, the new (and first-ever) deputy director of energy justice at the US Department of Energy, talks about how she develops and works with big ideas.
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#WIL2021
@AlumniNU
@NUSLclic
Professor Ari Ezra Waldman
@ariezrawaldman
, a leading authority on law and technology, joins Northeastern’s faculty on July 1 as Professor of Law and Computer Science with a joint appointment at the School of Law and
@KhouryCollege
.
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@NUSLclic
Prof.
@danielmedwed
and team of 5 other law professors prevail in federal court ruling that vindicates crucial First Amendment rights and upholds use of holding prosecutors accountable for misconduct through publishing disciplinary complaints against them.
Kudos to Professor Woodrow
@Hartzog
and Neil Richards of
@washulaw
, winners of
@futureofprivacy
's 2019 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award for their co-authored paper, "Privacy’s Constitutional Moment and the Limits of Data Protection."
#NUSLPride
.
@MassAGO
Maura Healey '98 receives a standing ovation following her keynote address at tonight's
#NSULReunion
gala. “As we learned at Northeastern, there is no justice without social justice.”
“Coerced treatment is definitely no better and likely less effective than voluntary treatment," Professor
@LeoBeletsky
tells
@BostonGlobe
."And putting people in a prison environment can be traumatizing, worsening their addiction."
@NUSLHealth
#OpioidCrisis
Congratulations to Professor
@KaraWSwanson
, who is spending the summer as the Linda Hall Library Fellow, doing archival research for her forthcoming book, Inventing Citizens: Race, Gender, and the US Patent System!
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As a Linda Hall Library fellow,
@KaraWSwanson
will consult our collections to explore the relationship between the celebration of American inventiveness and civil rights across U.S. history. Meet Kara:
Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
@CRRJ_NEUSL
announces the release of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, one of the most comprehensive digital archives of racial homicides collected to date.
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Congratulations to Professor Wendy Parmet, who is being honored today with the American Association of Law Schools (
@TheAALS
) Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care’s Health Law Community Service Award!
@NUSLHealth
@WeParmet
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Prof.
@LeoBeletsky
will join a panel of experts on 3/24 to explore the strengths & shortcomings of US drug policy & discuss what the Biden administration might learn from countries, cities & states taking innovative approaches to problematic substance use.
@NUSLHealth
@HiJAction
Kudos to Professor Alexandra Roberts
@lexlanham
, who is hosting a workshop for junior IP scholars over Zoom today in her last act as co-chair of the Junior IP Scholars Association!
#JIPSA
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@NUSLclic
The Center for Health Policy and Law is excited to share that the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings are out and
@NUSL
is ranked
#5
in
#HealthLaw
!! Thank you to our wonderful faculty, staff, and students! :)
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Congratulations to Rachael Rollins ’97 on winning the Democratic nomination for Suffolk district attorney! Rachael, a member of NUSL’s Women in the Law advisory group, is one step closer to becoming the first woman of color to lead Boston’s criminal justice system.
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Professor Alexandra J. Roberts
@lexlanham
, a leading authority on intellectual property and social media, has been named faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity!
@NUSLclic
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Congratulations to Rachael Rollins
@DARollins
, class of 1997, just confirmed by the US Senate as President Biden's choice for US Attorney for Massachusetts!
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@AlumniNU
In recognition of its national leadership in preparing students for public interest lawyering, Northeastern University School of Law has been ranked No. 1 for public interest in the 2021 “back to school” issue of
@prelawmagazine
!
@Northeastern
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Many congratulations to Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand on the publication of her new book, Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming Urban Market Regulations. Now available from Cambridge University Press!
@CambridgeUP
Meet Our New Faculty! Professor Rashida Richardson '11 is a lawyer and researcher interested in the social and legal implications of “Big Data” and data-driven technologies with a racial justice focus.
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@Northeastern
@NUexperts
@AlumniNU
@NUCSS
Join us in the law library tomorrow (11/14) at 4PM ET for a conversation with Jerry Mitchell
@JMitchellNews
, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, MacArthur Fellow and founder of
@mississippicir
.
@CRRJ_NEUSL
@NU_CAMD
Register at:
Don't miss our community forum today at noon in partnership with
@HiJAction
! Professor
@LeoBeletsky
and
@RahsaanDHall
'98 will discuss the history of the War on Drugs as an instrument of racial oppression and its relationship with police brutality.
We are pleased to share the news that
@ZinaidaMiller
, a leading authority on transitional justice, human rights and humanitarianism, will join the
@Northeastern
faculty on January 1 as professor of law and international affairs!
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#WIL2023
It’s Commencement Day! Congratulations to the class of
#NUSL2022
! We will be live-streaming the ceremony from 3PM. Highlights include keynote by the Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76 and faculty address by Prof. Lucy Williams. Watch at:
Please join us tomorrow (11/17) at 12:45PM for a virtual Health Law Roundtable and Faculty Colloquium. Professor
@SariAltschuler
, director of
@HealthHum_at_NU
, will speak about her research related to Disability and Citizenship in the Early United States.
Professor Lucy Williams, director of NUSL's Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC), has been selected for a Fulbright Specialist award for spring 2018!
Listen back: On
@nprfreshair
, Prof. Margaret Burnham talks about injustice and racism brought to light in her powerful new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners.
#NUSLPRide
@wwnorton
@CRRJ_NEUSL
Congratulations to Alfred Brownell,
@PHRGE
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, who has been selected to receive
@IIEglobal
's inaugural Beau Biden Chair! Dr. Jill Biden presented the award to Brownell at the annual
#IIEGala
in NYC last night.
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Professor
@danielmedwed
's book, "Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison," was selected for a 2023 Top Social Justice/Advocacy Book Award by In the Margins, which chooses the best books that illuminates issues of race, class and incarceration.
"It’s the impulse to do something to combat the opioid crisis that has fueled the recent increase in drug-induced homicide prosecutions," says Prof.
@LeoBeletsky
via
@theappeal
. "These prosecutions take resources away from more effective interventions."
“Genetics can only take us so far when it comes to race-based health disparities, and it can take us in the wrong direction,” writes Professor Jonathan Kahn in a blog for
@PetrieFlom
.
@NUSLHealth
@NUExperts
Northeastern University School of Law has advanced to the top 10 law schools for health care law in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings, released today!
@NUSLHealth
@Northeastern
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The New York Times looks to Professor Woodrow
@Hartzog
for advice on what to do when someone gives you a surveillance device for a holiday present.
@NUSLclic
@NUexperts
Northeastern Law's fall faculty colloquia series kicks off today! Professor
@rohangrey
of
@WillametteLaw
will present his paper, “Spending Money: The Constitutional Treasury, Monetary Delegation, and the Fiscal Franchise.”
@TheAALS
Congratulations to
@maura_healey
’98, the newly elected governor of Massachusetts! The first woman and first openly gay person elected to the role in Mass., Healey is also the first openly lesbian woman to be elected governor in the U.S.
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Congratulations to Sarah Lee Day ’21 on being awarded the highly competitive
@CatalystJustice
Fellowship! She will spend her fellowship at NARAL
@ProChoiceMass
, expanding upon a project she designed during her law school co-op.
#WIL2021
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Law profs prevail over backlash to publishing prosecutor misconduct cases! Prof.
@danielmedwed
was among a group of six law professors who signed on to a federal lawsuit to push for more accountability when prosecutors are found to have committed prosecutorial misconduct.
Congratulations to Professor Margaret Burnham, who will be honored with a 2023 Mass Humanities Governor’s Award, in recognition of her “dedication to exploring history, illuminating truth and confronting injustice.”
#NUSLPride
@CRRJ_NUSL
@NUGlobalNews