Professor Patricia J. Williams is the recipient of a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards.

“Today, if we are on our knees, we need to rise up and resist regressive efforts. And optimism serves as the fuel for a continued and successful campaign to recruit others to join in. As you enter the profession, I hope that you will find ways to join in this effort, even if it is in small ways.” Ralph C. Martin II ’78 told the more than 200 JD, LLM and MLS students who graduated on May 2, 2025, in Matthews Arena.

Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Global Law and Justice (CGLJ) submitted two stakeholder reports for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States by the UN Human Rights Council, which will take place in November.

Northeastern Law professors David Simon and Hooman Noorchashm together with Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow of Tufts Medical Center, who serve as co-directors of the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety (AJRC), recently submitted two petitions for accountability in medical device safety.

Northeastern Law graduates had the second highest bar passage rate in Massachusetts for July 2024 first-time takers: 95.7%.

Kayla Fox ’25, a youth advocate and community builder committed to dismantling systemic injustice, has been named the recipient of the third annual Tyler Lawrence Memorial Peacemaker Award.

A pivotal moment in the national dialogue on reparative justice took place at Mills College at Northeastern University during a February two-day conference, Towards Justice: Addressing Racial Violence, Advancing Legal Clarity and Restoring Community.

For the past three years, Professor Andrew Haile and first-year students in the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) program have worked with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, a Dorchester-based community organization that supports and serves individuals and families whose loved ones were murdered in the Boston area.

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 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.

Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), in partnership with WorldBoston, hosted 24 delegates from the US Department of State’s 2025 International Visitor Leadership Program in February.

Professor Sharmila Murthy, an expert on examining legal and policy barriers to achieving environmental justice, improving access to water and addressing climate change, has been named faculty co-director of the law school’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration.

To ensure public health is not undermined in the courts, Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), as part of the Act for Public Health partnership, recently released a report, A Plan for Action: Protecting Public Health in the Courts, that calls for several critical action steps, including research, education and coordination with allies in organizing and drafting amicus briefs in cases with significant public health ramifications.

The law school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) recently filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Caesars Online Casino in Pennsylvania state court alleging that its $2,500 deposit match promotion for new customers is misleading, predatory and likely illegal.

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