Professor Wendy E. Parmet, a leading expert on public health law, health law and disability law, has been ranked No. 7 among the “10 most-cited health law faculty in the US, 2019–2023,” according to “Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.”

To recognize the trailblazing career of Professor Patricia J. Williams, the Section on Race and Private Law of the Association of American Law Schools has named an annual award in her honor.

Professor Claudia E. Haupt, a First Amendment expert, delivered Northeastern University’s Constitution Day Lecture on September 19, 2024.

At the Global Legal Skills Conference, held in Bari, Italy, Professor Quisquella Addison presented on “Training Law Students to Leverage Data for Social Change: Key Takeaways from Two Access-to-Justice Projects with First- Year Law Students.”

In November, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and faculty co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, delivered the keynote address at the annual scholarship celebration of Northeastern University’s Digital Scholarship Group and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.

Em Seawell has joined Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context program as a Social Justice Teaching Fellow.

This fall, Professor Alexandra Meise was appointed Women, Peace and Security Studies Chair at the US Army War College (USAWC) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she is serving her second year on secondment as a visiting professor of national security studies.

Last summer, professors Andrew Haile and Elizabeth Knowles shared their depth of experience and expertise with Northeastern University’s Dialogues of Civilization program: Haile co-led a trip to the Pacific Northwest, and Knowles led a group to Thailand.

Professor David A. Simon has joined CLASSICA, an EU-funded research project that seeks to improve cancer surgery outcomes by integrating AI into the operating theater.

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