NEA Puts NuLawLab at Center Stage
Rarely does the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) look to a law school when funding the arts and education, but with a $150,000 grant to Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab, law is on center stage with the arts. NuLawLab is joining with local partners at Northeastern and in East Boston to launch the East Boston Spatial Justice Lab, a project that will work to understand and measure how the arts, advocacy and cultural organizing for housing justice can strengthen residents’ wellbeing and the community’s relationship to belonging, healing and revitalization. The project is also supported by a $200,000 grant to Maverick Landing Community Services from The Kresge Foundation.
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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.
Northeastern Law is pleased to welcome four exceptional new faculty members: Rosa Hayes, Ryan Quinn ’19, Veryl Pow and Katheryn Russell-Brown.
