Chase Strangio ’10, an attorney for the ACLU and co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, made history in December as the first openly transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court.

Northeastern Law’s new Center for Global Law and Justice (CGLJ), which employs innovative and collaborative approaches to address the most urgent global challenges of our time, is operating at breakneck speed.

Bradley Whitmarsh, assistant director of computer services at Northeastern Law, brings his problem-solving skills to Scrabble, and that’s been a winning strategy for the Northeastern graduate and 25-year employee.

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Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) released a report in November on the multifaceted challenges surrounding Black land loss, including its impact on building generational wealth within many Black communities.

The Massachusetts Department of Higher Education has awarded $150,000 to fund a third year of the Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants Judicial Scholarship Program.

Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, has been awarded a supplemental $300,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) to continue to support and expand Salus Populi, the nation’s first program to educate judges and lawyers about the social determinants of health and their relationship to law.

To celebrate the decade-long partnership between the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and the Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights and Justice at Southern University Law Center (SULC), members of both organizations gathered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last July.

Documents related to the 1945 killing of Hattie DeBardelaben, a 46-year-old Black mother and grandmother whose case was investigated by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), were made publicly available in November as the first set of records released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act.

Check out the groundbreaking new book Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems, co-edited by Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab executive director Dan Jackson ’97, creative director Jules Rochielle Sievert and design director Miso Kim.

Cecile Tchoujan ’24 is helping start-ups and entrepreneurs with business formation and a variety of related legal related matters as the 2024–2025 Roux Institute Legal Fellow.

The class action lawsuit brought by Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) against DraftKings is advancing through the Boston courts.

Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) recently received a $30,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation to support CJTF’s Jail to Jobs Pipeline Project.

Northeastern Law and Tufts Medical Center are joining together to establish the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety. This venture will analyze data from tens of thousands of medical devices to identify safety risks and develop legal tools to address them.

In International Human Rights for Whistleblowers, Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has, for the first time, collated key information about the wide range of international venues and mechanisms that may be accessed by whistleblowers seeking support and vindication for their claims.