Professor Wallace “Wally” Holohan retired in June after 45 years teaching at Northeastern. Professor Hemanth Gundavaram offers his thoughts on his impact and legacy.

Professor Antoinette Coakley, assistant dean of Northeastern Law’s Bar Success Program, was recognized in March as one of the 57 Most Influential Black Attorneys in the Northeast by the Northeast Black Law Students Association (NEBLSA).

Professor Sharmila Murthy’s article “Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice,” published in the Stanford Law Review in 2024, was selected for inclusion in the 17th edition of the prestigious Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR).

Professor Claudia Haupt, a First Amendment scholar whose research is situated at the intersection of free speech, health and technology, spent her spring sabbatical at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford.

Professors Andrew Haile, Melanie Roberts and Daniel Medwed are the 2025 recipients of the law school’s Teacher of the Year award.

In May, Professor Elettra Bietti presented on “AI Antitrust as Regulatory Law” at the Law, Technology and Economics of AI conference held at the University of Hong Kong.

Professor David Simon, an expert in healthcare law, intellectual property, data governance and liability, has been selected as a 2025 Health Law Scholar by the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Northeastern Law is pleased to welcome four exceptional new faculty members: Rosa Hayes, Ryan Quinn ’19, Veryl Pow and Katheryn Russell-Brown.

Professor Margaret Burnham was recently honored with the prestigious Equity Award by the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.

Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, associate dean for academic and faculty affairs and director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, received the university’s 2025 John Portz Faculty Excellence Award in May.

Professor Richard Daynard, president of the law school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, was recently featured in several lengthy articles about his pioneering work fighting Big Tobacco and his new focus on sports gambling as a threat to public health.

Professor Karl Klare was honored in May with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

Professor Sarah Lageson was recently awarded two grants from the Clean Slate Initiative to conduct research on the implementation and impact of automatic criminal record expungement across the United States.

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Professors Jonathan Kahn and Daniel Medwed are turning pages and minds in new books on critical topics.