Northeastern Law is thrilled to announce that, thanks to the generosity of our community, the school has raised $1 million with the A Million Thanks for Dan Givelber campaign honoring the late Dan Givelber, a beloved former dean and faculty member who passed away on June 25, 2023.

Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC) has been awarded a $2.5 million Impact Engine Grant from Northeastern University to expand its Cradle-to- Prison Pipeline Project (C2P Project) over the next four years.

For the second time in two years, Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) submitted testimony to the Massachusetts General Court’s Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security in support of the proposed Safe Communities Act, which seeks to protect the civil rights and safety of all Massachusetts residents by limiting the involvement of local law enforcement officers in federal immigration enforcement.

In a significant victory for the law school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently upheld a groundbreaking bylaw in the town of Brookline that bans tobacco sales in town to anyone born in the 21st century.

The city of Boston’s Task Force on Reparations has selected a Northeastern University School of Law team, led by renowned civil rights leader Professor Margaret Burnham, to research the multigenerational impact of slavery on Black Bostonians.

Northeastern Law’s First-Generation Law Association provides community and support for first-gen students, faculty and staff.

Northeastern Law’s Community Business Clinic provides students with transactional experience while simultaneously meeting the needs of underserved entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences’ Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, has received $1 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to support and expand upon Salus Populi, the nation’s first education program for judges that provides critical information about the social determinants of health

In court and through proposed regulations, Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute argues that when it comes to sports betting, the public health stakes are too high.

Associate Dean Hemanth Gundavaram has been elected to serve on the 2024 executive board of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Minority Groups.

Associate Dean Hemanth Gundavaram has been elected to serve on the 2024 executive board of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Minority Groups.

Professor Martha Davis, an internationally recognized expert on economic and social rights, joined with a group of leading law faculty in April to submit an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, a case in which the Supreme Court ultimately upheld an Oregon city’s laws aimed at banning homeless residents from sleeping outdoors, saying they did not violate the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, spoke at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin, Texas, in March about policing and modern-day lynchings in the rural South.

Professor Hilary Robinson and colleagues from Northeastern University’s College of Engineering and College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Boston College are wrapping up a collaborative project, Understanding the Algorithmic Workplace: A Multi-Method Study for Comprehensive Optimization of Platforms, funded by a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Over the past year, Professor Kara Swanson, a leading authority on the intersections of intellectual property with race, gender and sexuality and on the history of science and technology, has reveled in the intellectual joy of fellowships from Kansas City to the land of the Kiwis.