Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force has jointly launched the Massachusetts Reentry Resource Directory, an online resource to help returning citizens, their families and other marginalized communities access services that may be crucial to successful reentry.

NuLawLab spearheaded the launch this spring of the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement (MAPLE) — a web-based tool that allows Massachusetts residents and organizations to easily submit testimony on pending state legislation on Beacon Hill.

Governor Maura Healey ’98 has selected Black Tie, an oil painting by Robert Freeman, to hang in her office. The painting depicts Black Americans at a social gathering during racial segregation when Black people had to create a space for themselves in society. It was inspired by a time when Freeman and his wife, Bettye Freeman ’91, who later served as assistant dean for academic and student affairs at Northeastern Law for 20 years, went to a dinner party when they were in their twenties.

Every year, millions of people have their water shut off. The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy is taking action to ensure that the human right to water prevails.

Cynthia Tow McPherson ’05 only steps into the kitchen when absolutely necessary. That’s one of the reasons she boasts a DUPR of 5.37 — an impressive Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating that indicates her high level of proficiency in a sport she picked up only two years ago while on vacation.

Ben Clark ’06 didn’t see it coming when he arrived at Northeastern Law. Then, as so often happens, a co-op became a calling.

Professor Claudia Haupt is back at Northeastern Law after a fall visit at Yale Law School, where she taught public health law and continued her research on the intersection of the First Amendment, health law and torts in the context of professional speech.

On the House

Awards and accolades pour in for Drew DeVoogd ’07 for his pro bono work — he’s quick to point out that it takes a team.

Professor Martha Davis was recently named chair of the expert committee for the HumanRight2Water (HR2W), an international organization that works to integrate the human rights to water and sanitation into law, policy and practice.

The kudos keep coming for our faculty books that focus on the impact and legacy of COVID-19—and its significance for our collective future.

Pomp and circumstance abounded in October when Professor Beth Simone Noveck, director of The Burnes Center for Social Change, received an honorary degree from the University of Geneva.

Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and faculty co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), continues to receive awards and accolades for her book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton, 2022), as well as for her social justice leadership.

The Honorable Jay Blitzman, a longtime lecturer at Northeastern Law and revered former co-op employer when he served as first justice of the Massachusetts Middlesex County Juvenile Court, was honored in December by Citizens for Juvenile Justice, which he co-founded in 1994.

Professor Daniel Medwed, a criminal law expert, and Professor Aziza Ahmed, a former member of the Northeastern Law faculty who is now on the faculty of Boston University School of Law, are leading the Floating Lung Test Research Study Group.

Yep, that was Dave Rothstein ’97, ephemeral artist, environmental lawyer and all-around merrymaker with a cause, paddling in a pumpkin down the Connecticut River in November.