2.8.24 ›› CHPL cosponsored this symposium held at Boston University School of Law. Professors Katherine Kraschel, Martha Davis and Wendy Parmet and CHPL Managing Director Mehreen Butt participated in conversations focused on developing a right to life for people of reproductive age.

4.12.23 ›› In 2023, the Supreme Court upended established equal protection law with its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, effectively eliminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions. This conference focused on how the Court’s decision may have profound and troubling implications for health equity.

4.26.24 ›› This full-day, interactive, seminar-style program provided judges with an introduction to the social determinants of health and their relationship to judicial decision-making, plus the tools judges need to apply their knowledge to their work on the bench.

5.22.24 ›› Academics and public health officials from across the country met at Northeastern Law to create a strategic plan for protecting public health in the courts.

6.20.24 ›› This symposium of the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network, led by PHRGE, focused on reparative justice in the United States and human rights in practice. The event, which featured a keynote conversation between Professor Margaret Burnham and Professor Justin Hansford of Howard University, was held at Fordham University and cohosted by Fordham Law’s Center on Race, Law and Justice and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice.

3.22.24 ›› This World Water Day briefing focused on the impact of local water affordability policies and Massachusetts legislation on the human right to water and sanitation.

4.5.24 ›› Margaret Huang, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center and former executive director of Amnesty International USA, delivered the 2024 Gordon Lecture. In her lecture, “The Necessity of (and Struggle for) a Human Rights Movement in the United States,” Huang called for establishing a national human rights institution, normalizing the use of international human rights principles in social justice advocacy and building public awareness in this country about international human rights.

5.16.24 ›› Digital technologies are transforming the global economy, reshaping labor markets, employment relations and public services in far-reaching ways. This workshop was the culminating event of the Algorithmic Workplace, a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation. Professor Hilary Robinson served as one of the principal investigators (see page 38).

3.13.24 ›› This hybrid conference, cohosted with Northeastern University London, focused on key trends in AI and legal technology that will shape the world in the coming decade.

5.8.24 ›› April English ’00, chief secretary to Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey ’98, delivered the keynote address at the 31st annual Denise Carty-Bennia Memorial Bar Awards reception. Lennox Chase ’98 presided over the ceremony. Twenty students received bar awards.

2.5.24 ›› Northeastern Law’s Alumni/ae Association Virtual Book Club became an instant “bestseller” when it launched in 2020. This year, the book club was delighted to feature a discussion between Dahlia Lithwick (above, right), author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America and host of Slate’s Amicus podcast, and Professor Jeremy Paul (above, left).

4.10.24 ›› Erin Reed, a transgender journalist who writes Erin in the Morning, a subscription newsletter on LGBTQ+ legislation, news and life, spoke about the current state of anti-trans legislation and how advocates can push back against hatred for the trans movement.

3.12.24 ›› Professor Deleso Alford, a faculty member of the Southern University Law Center and author of an amicus brief in the case of Estate of Henrietta Lacks vs. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., and Professor Patricia Williams spoke about the legacy of Henrietta Lacks, the young Black mother whose cancer cells, nicknamed HeLa, supported a generation of medical research. Although Lacks passed away in 1951, her cells continue to impact the world.

2.29.24 ›› This presentation featured Professor Jordana Goodman of Chicago-Kent College of Law. She highlighted the inequities the patent prosecution process presents to inventors from marginalized backgrounds for inventions related to their culture. Goodman drew attention to the USPTO’s inequitable messaging and proposed structural solutions to the patent system.

03.14.24 ›› This discussion focused on how tech platform markets dominated by companies such as Alphabet, Amazon and Meta are being remade through antitrust law and how antitrust law is, or isn’t, changing to address emerging economic challenges.

4.2.24 ›› Professor Michael Veale of University College London spoke with Northeastern Professor of Philosophy John Basl about emerging business models of AI and challenges similar to those of the past, as well as those unique to AI business models. Professor Elettra Bietti moderated the conversation.

4.11.24 ›› This book talk featured Professor Ignacio Cofone, Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University, in conversation with faculty members Claudia Haupt and Elettra Bietti. Cofone’s research explores how laws should adapt to technologically driven social and economic change, with a focus on data harms and AI decision-making.

2.22.24 ›› CRRJ celebrated Black History Month by inviting Professor Kellie Carter Jackson, chair of Africana studies at Wellesley College, to present on her new book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.

4.2.24 ›› James Williams, former chief public defender for Orange and Chatham Counties in North Carolina and current racial equity coordinator at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, spoke about public memorialization in the United States. Williams leads the Booker Spicely Committee, which seeks memorialization for an African American soldier killed in Durham, North Carolina, in 1944 and restorative justice for surviving family members.

4.3.24 ›› Northeastern University Professor Emeritus Martin Blatt, editor of the new collection Violence and Public Memory, joined volume contributor Professor Maria John of UMass Boston for a discussion on the

2.12-14.24 ›› Diala Shamas, senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, came to Northeastern Law for three days in February as a Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow. Shamas delivered a community lecture, “Lawyering for Palestinian Rights in These Times.”

3.1–2.24 ›› Northeastern Law invited junior law faculty from across the nation to this conference that focused on peer review of papers, discussions about law careers and networking.

5.16-17.24 ›› Property Works in Progress is a workshop of property professors that meets annually to present and discuss papers concerning property law and theory. Its goal is to provide an intimate forum for the exchange of ideas and the receipt of early feedback from colleagues.

4.2.24 ›› This event underscored the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to addressing societal challenges that are relevant to how business and law function.