Professor Emeritus Roger Abrams, who served as dean of Northeastern Law from 1999 to 2002, passed away on November 12, 2023, in University Park, Florida, after a long battle with cancer. A prolific author and leading authority on sports law, labor law and legal education, Professor Abrams retired from Northeastern in 2018. Professor Emerita Mary O’Connell ’75 reflects on Professor Abrams’ contributions and camaraderie

More than 240 graduates and friends were welcomed back to campus for a weekend of fun and friendship on October 20-21, 2023, as we celebrated Reunion and Alumni/ae Weekend.

Thousands of innocent people are languishing in our nation’s prisons. Picking up the pieces is where Northeastern lawyers come in.

When it comes to hiring summer associates, Big Law is changing the timeline for tapping into talent.

Co-op Matters

On co-op with the Legal Centre Lesvos, Jennifer Gonzales ’24 is assisting immigrants who arrive on the legendary island in the Aegean Sea.

We look in every direction and see so many wrongs that need to be set right. But at this school, we embrace hope.

Chelsea Diaz ’24 has been awarded a two-year Skadden Fellowship, among the most prestigious awards for law students pursuing careers in public interest law.

In November, Professor Margaret Woo traveled to China on behalf of Northeastern Law to renew the school’s agreements with Renmin University of China, Fudan University, Wuhan University and East China University of Political Science and Law and to build new alliances with additional universities.

The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) recently released the eighth publication in its series on water and human rights in the US, “Data on Tap: Realizing Human Rights Through Water Utility Reporting Laws.”

NuLawLab executive director Dan Jackson ’97 traveled to Helsinki in September to facilitate a panel, “Legal + Design + Education = Inventing the Future,” for Legal Design Summit 2023, the largest legal design event in the world.

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

To support start-ups and entrepreneurs affiliated with Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, Daniel Davies ’22 has been named the Roux Institute Legal Fellow for 2023–2024.

Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and its Center for Public Health Litigation filed a class action lawsuit in December on behalf of Massachusetts citizens who opened DraftKings Sportsbook accounts in response to a $1,000 bonus sign-up promotion that the gambling company widely advertised.

The Massachusetts town of Brookline is not just blowing smoke when it comes to ending the tobacco epidemic. As of September 1, 2021, no one born in the 21st century is allowed to buy tobacco in the Boston suburb of 60,000 people after town meeting voters adopted a first-in-thenation bylaw prohibiting tobacco or e-cigarette sales to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000. While support for the new regulation is strong, a challenge brought by a group of Brookline tobacco merchants was recently argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC).

On December 1, 2023, a state highway historical marker was unveiled in memory of US Army Pfc. Booker T. Spicely.