New Faces

Rosa Hayes joins the faculty as assistant professor of law. Her research explores how the different branches and levels of government administer or obstruct public administration, with particular focus on public programs to mitigate climate change and the role of courts in mediating competing claims of sovereignty. Hayes was previously a clinical fellow in the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School, where she co-taught the clinical seminar and supervised students in the practice of environmental law. She served as a law clerk for Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford of the US District Court for the District of Vermont. Hayes holds a JD from Yale Law School, a BA in economics from Wesleyan University and an MA in economics from Yale; she also worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Veryl Pow, a movement lawyer who specializes in solidarity economics and land return, joins Northeastern as associate professor of law and architecture within the School of Law and the College of Arts, Media and Design. Pow previously served as a clinical instructor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and with the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Pow practiced rebellious lawyering in South Los Angeles around traffic court debt. As a Skadden Fellow in Baltimore, he represented hundreds of debtors caught in the predation of the bail bonds industry, and he challenged the industry in class action litigation that ended in a settlement with two of the nation’s largest insurers of bail bonds. Pow holds a JD from UCLA School of Law and a BA from the University of Washington. His writings center on racial capitalism, critical race theory and rebellious lawyering.

Ryan Quinn ’19 joins the faculty as assistant teaching professor after serving as a part-time professor for two years. He previously spent over a decade working in the labor movement, including most recently as a labor lawyer at Segal Roitman in Boston, where he co-founded the first US union of private law firm associates. His practice included private and public sector labor and employment law, with a focus on the constitutional rights of public employees and their unions. Quinn’s research centers on developments in labor law and the future of work, particularly the role of unions in building democratic workplaces and societies. He clerked for the Honorable Mary Thomas Sullivan ’81 of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He holds a a BA from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, an MS from UMass Amherst and a JD from Northeastern Law.

Katheryn Russell-Brown, a leading scholar in race and criminal justice, recently joined Northeastern as the Elmer V.H. and Eileen M. Brooks Trustee Professor of Crime, Law and Justice, with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Russell-Brown previously served as the Levin, Mabie and Levin Professor of Law and director of the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she also directed the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations. She currently serves as president of the American Society of Criminology. Russell-Brown is the author of several books, including Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime and African Americans. She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley; JD from the University of California, Hastings; and her PhD in criminology from the University of Maryland.