Going Places
Bright Lights, Lone Star
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.
Musing in the Midwest
At the 2024 Antitrust and Competition Conference, held at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Professor Elettra Bietti participated in the panel “Regulatory Competition, the European Digital Markets Act and Innovation.”
Going Local
Professors Martha Davis, Wendy Parmet and Katherine Kraschel participated in panels at the Advancing Pregnant Persons’ Right to Life Symposium, held in February at Boston University School of Law and cosponsored by Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
Meet Me in St. Louis
In January, Professor Aliza Hochman Bloom traveled to Washington University in St. Louis School of Law for its law review’s symposium Criminal Justice Minimalism, where she presented her paper “Reviving Rehabilitation as a Decarceral Tool.”
Gateway to the West
At the Association of American Law Schools’ annual clinical conference held in St. Louis in May, Associate Dean Hemanth Gundavaram and Professor Evan Darryl Walton participated in panels related, respectively, to clinical professors in law school leadership and preparing students for success.
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In the aftermath of a mass shooting, civic leaders face enormous pressure to respond swiftly, compassionately and effectively. To meet this critical need, Northeastern Law’s UnitedonGuns has released an extensively updated second edition of its Mass Shooting Protocol and Playbook.
Professor Elettra Bietti recently testified before the Massachusetts State House in support of two bills designed to reduce the legal burden for plaintiffs suing landlords who use commercial pricing software to coordinate rental prices.
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Professor Emerita Judith Olans Brown and her husband, Jim, have made a second major gift of $500,000 in support of the Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law.
